Description

CARLISLE

NY4055NW ENGLISH STREET
671-1/12/130 (East side)
Nos.13 AND 15

GV II

House now shop with offices above. Early C19 with C20
alterations. Painted stucco walls with V-jointed quoins, all
dressings of painted stone. Welsh slate roof; shared end brick
chimney stack.
3 storeys, 3 bays; when built this was one house but when the
ground was converted to a shop, this became No.13 and the
premises above No.15 with an entrance in the return on Kings
Arms Lane. Left late C20 shop window; right original quoined
carriage arch with segmental head, forms the entrance to Kings
Arms Lane. Upper floor sash windows with glazing bars in
architraves.
The return on Kings Arms Lane is 3 storeys and 2 storeys of
numerous bays; only one original door and radial fanlight in
pilastered surround with false key and imposts; one original
window, boarded over, in stone architrave partly cut away and
shutter hinge brackets.
INTERIOR: ground floor extensively altered.
HISTORY: An 1835 painting of the Market Place by WH Nutter
(Carlisle Museum) shows this building for the first time;
there was no front entrance from English Street. A photograph
of 1857, reproduced as the fronticepiece of the exhibition
catalogue Nineteenth Century Carlisle, 1971, Carlisle Museum,
shows this building as Flemish bond brickwork before the
application of stucco.

Listing NGR: NY4013155908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491468

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]