Description

CARLISLE

NY3956SE WEST WALLS
671-1/6/309 (West side)
Nos.10-22 (Even)
incorporating city walls

GV I

City wall, mews stables, warehouses and school; now theatre,
public house, amusement arcade and disco. Early C12 city wall,
1813 school, late C19 mews and 1980s public house, etc. These
later buildings in themselves are not of interest but are
listed to protect the city wall behind them.
The front wall of each building on the West Walls facade being
built on top of the west city walls. Robert Smirke suggested
that buildings could be built against the walls when he
advised on the building of the Central School; see
correspondence in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/2/209/76
and Ca/5/3/39, and conveyances of the School 1919-20 as St
Cuthbert's Parish Hall (the school closed 31 August 1909)
Ca/5/2/40.
That the city wall exists behind these buildings was confirmed
by work done by the Carlisle Archaeological Unit in recording
the structure when "Legends" and "Big Softies" were extended
in 1985. For the through-archway and chamber behind the wall,
thought to be the sewerage outlet for Blackfriars Convent, now
within the Green Room Theatre, see W Hutchinson (1794);
Carlisle Journal (1829); and Lysons Magna Britannia:
Cumberland (1816), for drawings of the chamber.
This stretch of city walls does not form part of the Scheduled
Ancient Monument of the remaining exposed West Walls, but is a
continuation of it. For the further continuation of this wall
see under the Central Plaza Hotel, Victoria Viaduct (qv).
(Carlisle Journal: 7 February 1829; Lysons: Magna Britannia;
Cumberland: 1816-: P.CCVII; Hutchinson, William: History of
Cumberland: 1794-: P.607).

Listing NGR: NY4002155726

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530555

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)