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Carlisle: Lowther Street, 22
Street:-   Lowther Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40255582
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

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CBR39.jpg (taken 15.9.2014)  
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CBR40.jpg  Date stone:-
"JJS / 18 92" (taken 15.9.2014)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1892)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NO 22 INCLUDING RAILINGS AT FRONT / 22 / LOWTHER STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386795 / NY4025755829"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Offices. Dated and inscribed JJS 1892 for J Jackson Saint, Chartered Accountants. Red sandstone ashlar with calciferous sandstone dressings, flush quoins, moulded sill bands, bracketed cornice; central Dutch gable with carved leaf finial. Slate roof hidden by gable; original end brick chimney stacks. 3 and a half storeys, 2 bays of considerable depth; Gothic style. Right door up steps with cusped panels and overlight, in polished granite colonnette surround. Paired sash windows in pilaster and colonnette surrounds, door and window heads have painted arches with blind decorative panels. Windows in gable are smaller and central."
"INTERIOR has mosaic-tiled lobby and panelled oak screen. Moulded plaster ceiling panels with cornices and central roundels. Original right wooden staircase with turned balusters and carved leaf newel post, turned on upper newel post."
"SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the scrolled wrought-iron railed area around the basement void. Front elevation and block plans of the proposed premises dated 1892 are in Cumbria County Record Office, DX/539/4."
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