Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584989

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings