Description

CARLISLE

NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE
671-1/11/237 (South side)
16/12/87 No.20

GV II

Includes: No.5 BRUNSWICK STREET.
2 houses, now an office on a corner site. Late 1870s or 1880s.
Portland Square facade of calciferous sandstone, quarry-faced
at basement level and bracketed cornice. Graduated slate roof,
hipped on corner; white brick ridge chimney stack. Brunswick
Street facade is of English garden wall bond brickwork, the
cornice of modillioned brick and white brick. Graduated slate
roof with ridge and end brick chimney stacks, the end one
reduced.
2 storeys, 3 bays on Portland Square with a single-bay return;
Brunswick Street facade of lower roof line, 2 storeys, 6 bays.
Portland Square house is the end of a terrace; a high central
doorway is now fitted with a sash window in stone architrave.
Flanking canted bay windows carried up from basement. Paired
sash windows over bay windows, single over former door, all in
stone surrounds. Return has paired sashes in plain brick
reveals. Brunswick Street facade has off-centre panelled door
and overlight in pilastered stone porch. Sash windows in brick
reveals with slightly-arched brick heads and stone sills.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: NY4055255652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491402

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas