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Latitude: 54.8914 / 54°53'29"N
Longitude: -2.9325 / 2°55'57"W
OS Eastings: 340282
OS Northings: 555584
OS Grid: NY402555
Mapcode National: GBR 7CYW.XC
Mapcode Global: WH802.XBQ0
Plus Code: 9C6VV3R8+HX
Entry Name: Midland Bank
Listing Date: 13 November 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297387
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386691
ID on this website: 101297387
Location: Carlisle, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA1
County: Cumbria
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
Tagged with: Bank building
CARLISLE
NY4055NW COURT SQUARE
671-1/12/104 (South side)
13/11/72 Midland Bank
GV II
Bank. 1865-7 for the Cumberland Union Banking Company by
Daniel Birkett of Carlisle and Liverpool. Calciferous
sandstone ashlar on rusticated plinth, with pilastered quoins,
pilasters, string courses and bracketed cornice under open
balustraded parapet. Graduated greenslate roof partly hipped;
vestiges of ashlar ridge chimney stacks.
3 storeys, 4 bays to each facade (one facing onto Botchergate)
with angled bay on corner. C20 angled panelled door and glazed
fanlight in tetrastyle porch with modillioned cornice under
balustraded balcony. Right C20 panelled door in stone
architrave under round-headed quoined arch; inscribed over
door C.U.B.C.. Large round-headed ground-floor casements
divided by pilasters and under carved-head keystones.
Upper-floor windows are sashes with segmental and round arches
divided by paired columns. Over the entrance is a triparitite
window with columned shaped pediment. Corner attic shaped
pedimental dormer. INTERIOR detail hidden by modern fascias.
Carlisle Journal (1865) gives proposals for new bank, which
because of a bricklayers' strike was not opened until 1867
(Carlisle Journal, 1867). Plans dated 1865 are in Cumbria
County Record Office, CA/E4/711.
(Carlisle Journal: 1 August 1865; Carlisle Journal: 24
September 1867).
Listing NGR: NY4028255584
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