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Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front

A Grade II Listed Building in Carlisle, Cumberland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8938 / 54°53'37"N

Longitude: -2.933 / 2°55'58"W

OS Eastings: 340259

OS Northings: 555848

OS Grid: NY402558

Mapcode National: GBR 7CYV.TH

Mapcode Global: WH802.X8J6

Plus Code: 9C6VV3V8+GR

Entry Name: Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front

Listing Date: 1 June 1949

Last Amended: 11 April 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1217914

English Heritage Legacy ID: 386796

ID on this website: 101217914

Location: Carlisle, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA3

County: Cumberland

District: Carlisle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Carlisle

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Carlisle St Cuthbert with St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/208 (East side) 01/06/49 Nos.24 AND 26 including railings to front (Formerly Listed as: LOWTHER STREET No 24 (County Club) and No 26 (Royal Insurance))

GV II

2 houses, now bank and offices. 1830s. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, rusticated on ground floor, with string course, eaves cornice and open balustraded parapet. Graduated slate roof; rendered ridge and end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays each; double-depth plan; Cellar voids retain their patterned cast-iron railings and steps down to cellar doors. Left entrances up steps have panelled doors and overlight in Roman Doric prostyle porches under false open parapets. Sash windows (with glazing bars in No.26) in plain stone reveals in cellar and ground floor; in stone architraves above with cornices and pierced aprons. Attic windows in eared architraves. INTERIORS retain much original detail; panelled doors in eared architraves and panelled internal shutters at some first-floor windows. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices embellished with angle heads in hallway of No.26. Panelled plaster ceiling arches at stairs. Original stone stairs with patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrails.

Listing NGR: NY4025955848

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