Description

CARLISLE

NY4055NW BOTCHERGATE
671-1/12/52 (East side)
22/03/74 Nos.1-15 (Odd)
County Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
BOTCHERGATE
(North East side)
Red Lion Hotel)

GV II

Formerly Red Lion Hotel, with ground floor shops and hotel
above, renamed in 1990 and recently renovated. 1894-6 for
Samuel Bousfield by J Murchie. Calciferous sandstone ashlar,
with string courses, sill bands and bracketed cornice.
Graduated greenslate roof with lead hips on corner and
pedimental dormer windows; ashlar and brick ridge chimney
stacks.
3 storeys and attic, 13 bays, higher 3-storey with attic
corner block with angled bay and 2-bay left return facing onto
The Crescent under pavilion roof. C20 panelled doors and
radial fanlight in round-headed surround with polished granite
pilasters, under bracketed hood. Incised lettering over door
"Red Lion Hotel". Ground-floor C20 shop windows divided by
original polished granite pilasters. Canted oriel window over
entrance has pediment. Other windows are sashes in plain stone
reveals, under carved brackets supporting balustraded balcony.
Initials S.B. on keystone over door (the owner). The corner
range has paired sash windows with rounded heads on first
floor in pilastered surrounds with lion's head keystones;
flattened-arched windows above in stone architraves.
INTERIOR: ground floor mostly taken up with shops, but at the
rear is a Royal Doulton tiled billiard room (most removed
1990).
Plans dated 1893 are in Cumbria County Council Records Office,
CA/E4/12227. A photograph in JP Templeton, (1988), which must
have been taken in 1896 because it has a horse bus on it,
shows workmen completing the roof.
(Templeton JP: Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards: P.27).

Listing NGR: NY4030455615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503855

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