Description

CARLISLE

NY3854 WIGTON ROAD
671-1/15/316 (South side)
01/06/49 Morton Community Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
WIGTON ROAD
Morton)

II

Also known as: The Manor WIGTON ROAD.
House, now community centre. Early C19 on the site of an
earlier farmhouse. Cement-rendered walls on chamfered plinth
(all dressings of calciferous sandstone), with V-jointed
quoins and dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped graduated
greenslate roof; rendered ridge chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 5 bays with a 6-bay return (the garden facade)
forming an L-shape; set in its own grounds (Morton Park)
reputedly laid out by Gilpin, the landscape gardener.
Projecting central ashlar porch has engaged Ionic columns,
double panelled doors in stone architrave under Chance family
motto DEO NON FORTUNA and dentilled broken segmental pediment.
Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves, those on
upper floor are smaller.
Garden facade is of 3 builds; left single bay; central 2 bays
and right 3 bays. 3-bay part has central panelled door and
radial fanlight within in-antis Ionic surround. Flanking
squared bay windows, that on left converted to French window.
Sash windows above in stone architraves. 2-bay part has left
canted bay window and sash windows in stone architraves. Left
bay has ground floor C20 casement windows in stone
architraves.
INTERIOR retains many original features; marble fireplaces in
principal rooms, internal panelled shutters and panelled doors
in panelled reveals. C19 cantilever staircase with patterned
cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Moulded
plaster ceilings. Panelled wooden billiard room with heraldic
shields is a late C19 addition. Internal inscription states
that Sir Robert Chance gave this house to the citizens of
Carlisle as a Community Centre in 1944; he died in December
1960 and the centre was opened 29 April 1967.
For further details see article by Blake Tyson, "Newlaithes
Hall", CWAAS Trans.,NS XC.
(Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series:
Blake Tyson: XC: Newlaithes Hall: P.235-252).

Listing NGR: NY3826854982

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579797

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)