Description

CARLISLE

NY4057SW BRAMPTON ROAD
671-1/4/59 (North side)
Cumbria College of Art and Design -
The Cottage and Homeacres Cottage

GV II

Reform school, now part of college. 1854 for George Head Head
of Rickerby with later extensions to rear. English garden wall
bond brickwork without plinth; dressings of calciferous
sandstone. Steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with
skylight at rear; original ridge brick chimney stacks. Single
storey, single depth, 5 bays with right 2-bay extension.
Brampton Road facade has projecting end gables, that at left
with a canted bay window; all other windows are 2-light stone
mullioned with elaborate patterned cast-iron tracery. Left
return has a gable porch with a panelled door in stone
surround. Rear doors and casement windows in brick reveals.
INTERIOR has exposed hammer-beam trusses. This was built as
the Cumberland Reformatory for boys; for further details and
illustration see Cumberland News (1956). Homeacres Cottage at
right is included for group value.
(Cumberland News: 4 May 1956: P.10).

Listing NGR: NY4033757219

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491476

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