Description

CARLISLE

NY3957SE EDEN STREET, Edentown 671-1/3/126 (East side) Nos.28-34 (Even)

GV II

4 houses forming part of a terrace. Early 1850s. Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, on chamfered plinth (dressings of painted stone). Common graduated slate roof; C19 and C20 ridge and end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays each; double-depth plan. Each house has a panelled door and radial fanlight in stone surround within deep round-arched brick reveals (all are at right except No.30). Sash windows, most with glazing bars, in brick reveals with stone sills and flat brick arches. INTERIOR: panelled shutters on ground floor. Cumbria County Record Office have the conveyance documents for the sale of 17 plots for building at Edentown dated 1851. Details of the Edentown estate are given in JG Middleton (1950). The Edentown Estate was purchased as a green-field site by the Cumberland Co-operative Benefit Building Society in 1850. These houses have a similar appearance to 1850s houses in Tait Street. (Through Two Half-Centuries: History of the Cumberland --- Building Society: 1950-: P.22).

Listing NGR: NY3955157384

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