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| Carlisle: English Street, 13 and 15 | ||
| Thomas Cook | ||
| Street:- | English Street | |
| locality:- | Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | travel agent's | |
| coordinates:- | NY40125590 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4055 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "/ 13 AND 15 / ENGLISH STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386717 / NY4011955905" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "House now shop with offices above. Early C19 with C20 alterations. Painted stucco walls with V-jointed quoins, all dressings of painted stone. Welsh slate roof; shared end brick chimney stack. 3 storeys, 3 bays; when built this was one house but when the ground was converted to a shop, this became No.13 and the premises above No.15 with an entrance in the return on Kings Arms Lane. Left late C20 shop window; right original quoined carriage arch with segmental head, forms the entrance to Kings Arms Lane. Upper floor sash windows with glazing bars in architraves. The return on Kings Arms Lane is 3 storeys and 2 storeys of numerous bays; only one original door and radial fanlight in pilastered surround with false key and imposts; one original window, boarded over, in stone architrave partly cut away and shutter hinge brackets." "INTERIOR: ground floor extensively altered." "HISTORY: An 1835 painting of the Market Place by WH Nutter (Carlisle Museum) shows this building for the first time; there was no front entrance from English Street. A photograph of 1857, reproduced as the fronticepiece of the exhibition catalogue Nineteenth Century Carlisle, 1971, Carlisle Museum, shows this building as Flemish bond brickwork before the application of stucco." |
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