Description

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/209 (East side)
13/11/72 Nos.30-40 (Even)
including railings to front

GV II

Includes: No.1 LONSDALE STREET.
Terrace of 7 houses, now shops and offices, some with storage
accommodation above. Late 1820s or 1830s with later
alterations. Flemish bond brickwork (partly with light
headers) on calciferous sandstone plinth (all dressings of
this material) with V-jointed quoins, sill bands and eaves
cornice. Graduated greenslate roof, hipped on corner; original
shared ridge brick chimney stacks.
3 storeys, 2 bays each, with a 2-bay return on Lonsdale
Street, No.30 now unified as one office with No.1 Lonsdale
Street. Double-depth plan. Central 3 and corner houses retain
their cellar voids railed with C19 and C20 iron railings;
stone steps to cellar doors. Central 3 houses retain their
right panelled doors and patterned overlight in Tuscan
doorcases with wreathed friezes, up steps. Nos 32 and 40 have
the voids filled and C20 ground floor shop fronts. No.30 has
1920s angled doorway under carved coat of commercial arms and
a window insertion. Upper floor windows are sashes, some with
glazing bars and some casements, all in painted stone
architraves. Smaller attic windows.
INTERIORS: some retain panelled doors in wooden architraves
and panelled internal shutters. Moulded plaster ceiling
cornices in some principal rooms.
Have similarities with the houses in The Crescent which are
1820s.

Listing NGR: NY4025055897

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580224

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)