Description

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/210 (West side)
01/06/49 No.35
Liberal Club
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWTHER STREET
(West side)
Nos.35, 37 AND 39)

GV II

House now club. Early 1830s for Elizabeth Dacre. Calciferous
sandstone ashlar facade (other walls of brick) chamfered
plinth, cornice and solid parapet. Graduated greenslate roof
with dormer windows; C19 end brick chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 3 bays, double-depth, left-stair plan. Steps up to
central in antis doorway under overall radial fanlight. Sash
window above with glazing bars in stone architrave; small
patterned bowed cast-iron balcony. Flanking full-height bowed
bays with triple sash windows and glazing bars in stone
surrounds.
INTERIOR has moulded plaster ceiling cornices with roundels.
False ceilings on ground floor may conceal further
plasterwork. Original staircase has scrolled wrought-iron
balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Many original panelled
doors in panelled reveals with eared architraves.
HISTORY: see Robert Fell (1981). He dates the house to c1840,
but as Mrs Dacre lived on English Street and sold that house
in 1831 (Carlisle Journal 1831), this would seem to be the
date she moved into the new house. Brown (1951) says "Mrs
Dacre's 3 houses in Lowther Street, one of which in that with
the bow windows, was constructed purposely for her to give
entertainments in and had a huge drawing-room running from
front to back."
(Fell, Robert: Carlisle Liberal Club Limited - Centenary
1881-1981: 1981-; Carlisle Journal: 26 March 1831; Brown JW:
Round Carlisle Cross: 1951-: P.116).

Listing NGR: NY4022155807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584990

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