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Carlisle: Castle Street, 17
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Street:-   Castle Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY39865606
1Km square:-   NY3956
10Km square:-   NY35
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BXH81.jpg (taken 17.9.2012)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 17 / CASTLE STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386653 / NY3986456065"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House, now shop with storage accommodation over. Dated 1798 and inscribed J &MF on lead rainwater head. Built as a pair with No.19. Painted rendered walls on rendered plinth; string course and modillioned eaves cornice. Slate roof; ridge and end brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays; double-depth house, with front side stairs. Left panelled door and glazed fanlight in pilastered surround under bracketed cornice, up steps. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone architraves; smaller attic windows."
"INTERIOR has panelled doors in panelled reveals and internal panelled shutters on each floor. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and picture rail. Cantilever stone staircase with wrought-iron scrolled balusters and moulded wooden handrail; further contemporary wrought-iron safety rail attached. Upper floor painted stone fireplace with heraldic roundels. For further details see description of No.19 Castle Street next door (qv)."

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