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| Carlisle: Scotch Street, 42 and 44 | ||
| Mountain Warehouse | ||
| Street:- | Scotch Street | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY40095606 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4056 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone (1889) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "/ 42 AND 44 / SCOTCH STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386859 / NY4008056066" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "3 shops with offices above. Dated 1889 on pediment. By George Dale Oliver. Red sandstone ashlar with interval tiered pilasters, string courses, solid parapet and full pedimented dormers. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles; lead cupola on angle tower. Ashlar and brick ridge chimney stacks. 3 and a half storeys, 3 bays on Scotch Street with 3-bay return on Old Blue Bell Lane; Jacobean style. Ground-floor C20 doors and shop windows within original dividing pilasters. Corner shop retains its overall signboard and original illuminating scrolled metal gas-lamp brackets. First-floor cross-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights, single on the angle, with blind round arches. Similar windows above without the transoms. Shaped, pedimented central dormers on each facade and a round angle tower. Below the parapet of the tower is the painted lettering TOWER BUILDINGS. The shop window of No.46 (qv) adjoining, projects one bay into No.44 on ground floor." "INTERIORS not inspected." "The original design was published in The Builder, 3rd Aug 1889." |
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