Description

CARLISLE

NY4056SW NEWARK TERRACE
671-1/8/216 (East side)
22/03/74 The Turf Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
THE SWIFTS
The Turf Inn)

GV II

Grandstand hotel for the racecourse, now public house and
restaurant. 1839-40 for the shareholders, with 1874 extension
by Daniel Birkett. Snecked calciferous sandstone ashlar (all
dressings of this stone) on chamfered plinth with angle
pilasters, string courses and cornice. Patterned cast-iron
parapet railings. Sloping graduated local slate roof with
central opening; formerly stepped as grandstand hence the
central access; ashlar end chimney stacks.
3 storeys, 5 bays with 2-storey, 5-bay extension. The Newark
Terrace facade has central double door and overlight in
pilastered surround with cornice. 3 central bays project
slightly for full 3 storeys. C20 sash windows in stone
surrounds. The right return has external stone steps with
cast-iron railings, leading to stone porch at first floor
level. Extension has C20 off-centre doors under C20 wooden
bracketed porch. C20 casement windows, central ones on both
floors have cross mullion. Prominent machicolated chimney.
The 3-storey block slopes to 2 storeys at rear; central C20
door and overlight in pilastered surround. Left C20 door and
overlight in stone reveals. C20 windows in plain reveals,
those on upper floor paired.
INTERIOR has been gutted, except extension which retains its
cast-iron columns supporting open timber roof trusses.
HISTORY: Carlisle Journal (1840) stated that the building was
then almost completed. Plans for the extension are in Cumbria
County Record Office, Ca/E4/362. For an early C20 photograph
see Perriam (1989), this shows the upper floor originally had
large casement windows and a balcony. The racecourse closed in
1904 and this continued as a pub with a bowling green on the
original paddock. Purchased from the State Control Board in
1972 and left unoccupied and ruinous until renovated in 1988.
(Carlisle Journal: 27 June 1840; Perriam DR: Carlisle in
Camera 2: 1989-: P.40).

Listing NGR: NY4030356468

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512857

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)