Description

CARLISLE

NY3956SE CASTLE STREET 671-1/6/74 (West side) 01/06/49 Nos.26, 28 AND 30 and railings to front

GV II*

Terrace of 3 houses, now offices, flats and restaurant. 1823, for and by Paul Nixson, a Carlisle architect with his own marble works. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, rusticated on the ground floor with sill bands and modillioned eaves cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with skylights and dormer windows at rear; C19 ridge and end brick chimney stacks, some rendered and painted. 3 storeys, 9 bays; each house of 3 bays; double-depth houses. 3 left railed gates in railed void, give access down stone steps to cellar door under each entrance. Each house has steps at right to panelled door and overlight with Greek-key pattern, in prostyle Ionic porch. Sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals on ground floor and cellar; in stone architraves with cornices and panelled aprons on first floor, those over doorways with console brackets. Smaller attic windows. INTERIOR has moulded plaster ceilings on both floors, some with roundels and panels (rib-vaulted in the hall of No.26). Panelled internal shutters at front and rear. Good C19 white and black marble fireplaces in most principal rooms; the white marble one in the first floor room of No.26 has a figured frieze, probably carved by David Dunbar, Nixson's principal sculptor (Nixson's speciality was carved fireplaces). Panelled doors in panelled reveals, some of mahogony; original staircases, that in No.26 is spiral with patterned cast-iron balusters, in a domed well. HISTORY: The Carlisle Patriot, 5 July 1823, says "the houses now in course of erection in Castle Street, by Paul Nixson, will be a great ornament to the town - the beautiful white stone and architecture are worthy of each other". That these are the houses referred to is confirmed by BC Jones, CWAAS.Trans., NS, LXXXVIII, but he wrongly dated the terrace to 1829 on the evidence of land tax assessment records. (Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series: Jones, Bruce: LXXXVII: Before Tullie House: P.141; Carlisle Patriot: 5 July 1823).

Listing NGR: NY3981956047

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