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Latitude: 54.8927 / 54°53'33"N
Longitude: -2.9333 / 2°55'59"W
OS Eastings: 340236
OS Northings: 555729
OS Grid: NY402557
Mapcode National: GBR 7CYV.RW
Mapcode Global: WH802.X9C0
Plus Code: 9C6VV3V8+3M
Entry Name: 15 and 17, Lowther Street
Listing Date: 11 April 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297407
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386793
ID on this website: 101297407
Location: Carlisle, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA3
County: Cumbria
District: Carlisle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Carlisle
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Carlisle St Cuthbert with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
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CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/205 (West side)
Nos.15 AND 17
GV II
Entrance to arcade of 2 shops with offices above. Dated 1904
for the Carlisle Old Brewery Company by Henry Higginson of
Carlisle. Red brick with rusticated and alternate block quoins
(all dressings of calciferous sandstone), sill bands and
modillioned cornice. Welsh slate mansard roof with boxed
dormers and coped gables; red brick end and ridge chimney
stacks.
3 and a half storeys, 3 bays. Central through flattened
archway gives access to Lowther Arcade; flanking C20 shop
windows within original rusticated pilasters, carried around
the returns under the arch. Above the central bay has
alternate block quoins; all windows are tripartite with
alternate-block columns; the window over the arch is bowed and
above is a carved scrolled panel inscribed LOWTHER ARCADE.
Central open pediment with keystone feature. INTERIOR not
inspected.
Plans for this building in Cumbria County Record Office,
Ca/E4/13541, were approved 19 June 1903; its style was to
match the Three Crowns Hotel in English Street, at the other
end of the arcade (now The Citadel) which was built earlier to
the same architect's designs.
Listing NGR: NY4023655729
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