Description

CARLISLE

NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE
671-1/11/230 (North side)
22/02/73 Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)

GV II

Includes: No.4 ALFRED STREET NORTH.
Includes: No.3 BRUNSWICK STREET.
7 houses now offices. Late 1860s or early 1870s. Calciferous
sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with raised quoins, sill
band and stone-bracketed metal gutter; left return of red
brick, right return of white glazed brick and stone dressings.
Graduated greenslate roof, No.1 Portland Square with gable
dormers, Nos 2-5 Portland Square with continuous C20 box
dormers, slate hung.
Main facade 2 storeys, alternating 3- and 2-bay houses; 3-bay
houses on returns. Panelled doors, some partly glazed and
overlights, within prostyle Tuscan porches. The 3-bay houses
have flanking bay windows; No.5 is more ornate with
round-headed lights in pilastered surrounds with large false
keystones, the bay having quoins and sill brackets. 2-bay
houses have canted bay windows. Sash windows above in stone
architraves, some of them eared. Left return is No.3 Brunswick
Street, of similar details to the facade but red brick instead
of ashlar. Right return is No.4 Alfred Street North, of
similar details to the facade but white brick instead of
ashlar.
INTERIORS have some office conversions, but most have panelled
doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornices and central plaster
roundels in principal rooms.
The plans for No.3 by C & J Armstrong, dated 7 January 1867,
are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/762; however, the
plans differ slightly from what was built.

Listing NGR: NY4054455772

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580099

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The 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)