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Nos 26, 28 and 30 and Railings to Front

A Grade II* Listed Building in Carlisle, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8955 / 54°53'43"N

Longitude: -2.9399 / 2°56'23"W

OS Eastings: 339819

OS Northings: 556047

OS Grid: NY398560

Mapcode National: GBR 7CXT.BW

Mapcode Global: WH802.T68V

Plus Code: 9C6VV3W6+63

Entry Name: Nos 26, 28 and 30 and Railings to Front

Listing Date: 1 June 1949

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1355058

English Heritage Legacy ID: 386656

ID on this website: 101355058

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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Description



CARLISLE

NY3956SE CASTLE STREET
671-1/6/74 (West side)
01/06/49 Nos.26, 28 AND 30
and railings to front

GV II*

Terrace of 3 houses, now offices, flats and restaurant. 1823,
for and by Paul Nixson, a Carlisle architect with his own
marble works. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, rusticated on the
ground floor with sill bands and modillioned eaves cornice.
Graduated greenslate roof with skylights and dormer windows at
rear; C19 ridge and end brick chimney stacks, some rendered
and painted.
3 storeys, 9 bays; each house of 3 bays; double-depth houses.
3 left railed gates in railed void, give access down stone
steps to cellar door under each entrance. Each house has steps
at right to panelled door and overlight with Greek-key
pattern, in prostyle Ionic porch. Sash windows with glazing
bars in plain reveals on ground floor and cellar; in stone
architraves with cornices and panelled aprons on first floor,
those over doorways with console brackets. Smaller attic
windows.
INTERIOR has moulded plaster ceilings on both floors, some
with roundels and panels (rib-vaulted in the hall of No.26).
Panelled internal shutters at front and rear. Good C19 white
and black marble fireplaces in most principal rooms; the white
marble one in the first floor room of No.26 has a figured
frieze, probably carved by David Dunbar, Nixson's principal
sculptor (Nixson's speciality was carved fireplaces). Panelled
doors in panelled reveals, some of mahogony; original
staircases, that in No.26 is spiral with patterned cast-iron
balusters, in a domed well.
HISTORY: The Carlisle Patriot, 5 July 1823, says "the houses
now in course of erection in Castle Street, by Paul Nixson,
will be a great ornament to the town - the beautiful white
stone and architecture are worthy of each other". That these
are the houses referred to is confirmed by BC Jones,
CWAAS.Trans., NS, LXXXVIII, but he wrongly dated the terrace
to 1829 on the evidence of land tax assessment records.
(Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series:
Jones, Bruce: LXXXVII: Before Tullie House: P.141; Carlisle
Patriot: 5 July 1823).


Listing NGR: NY3981956047

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