Description

CARLISLE

NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE
671-1/11/242 Wall and railings around central
14/12/87 gardens
(Formerly Listed as:
PORTLAND SQUARE
Railings surrounding square garden)

GV II

Wall and railings. 1870, cast by Lees & Graham of Carlisle
(impressed founders name). Red sandstone; cast-iron railings.
Encloses a garden square surrounded by houses. Low wall with
chamfer, surmounted by patterned cast-iron speared railings,
broken in centre of each side by gate openings (without
gates); integral cast-iron gate piers of octagonal shaft with
ball-and-spear finials. Gate opening on west side enlarged.
This was laid out as a square without buildings on Asquiths
Survey of Carlisle, 1853: when buildings were added this was
made into a private residents garden; see Carlisle Journal
(1870) which records the planting let to Little & Ballantyne
and the inauguration by the Mayor by planting a tree in each
corner.
(Carlisle Journal: 11 March 1870).

Listing NGR: NY4056455683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580036

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)