Description

CARLISLE

NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/230 (North side) 22/02/73 Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)

GV II

Includes: No.4 ALFRED STREET NORTH. Includes: No.3 BRUNSWICK STREET. 7 houses now offices. Late 1860s or early 1870s. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with raised quoins, sill band and stone-bracketed metal gutter; left return of red brick, right return of white glazed brick and stone dressings. Graduated greenslate roof, No.1 Portland Square with gable dormers, Nos 2-5 Portland Square with continuous C20 box dormers, slate hung. Main facade 2 storeys, alternating 3- and 2-bay houses; 3-bay houses on returns. Panelled doors, some partly glazed and overlights, within prostyle Tuscan porches. The 3-bay houses have flanking bay windows; No.5 is more ornate with round-headed lights in pilastered surrounds with large false keystones, the bay having quoins and sill brackets. 2-bay houses have canted bay windows. Sash windows above in stone architraves, some of them eared. Left return is No.3 Brunswick Street, of similar details to the facade but red brick instead of ashlar. Right return is No.4 Alfred Street North, of similar details to the facade but white brick instead of ashlar. INTERIORS have some office conversions, but most have panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornices and central plaster roundels in principal rooms. The plans for No.3 by C & J Armstrong, dated 7 January 1867, are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/762; however, the plans differ slightly from what was built.

Listing NGR: NY4054455772

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