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Hallmark Hotels, Carlisle
Street:-   Court Square
locality:-   Botchergate
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY40265555
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

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CEH95.jpg (taken 13.11.2015)  
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CEH97.jpg  Monogram and date:-
"GHH / 1852" for George Head Head
(taken 13.11.2015)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cumbrian Hotel, The
placename:-  County and Station Hotel, The
placename:-  County Hotel, The
placename:-  Fletcher's
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE CUMBRIAN HOTEL / / COURT SQUARE / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386692 / NY4026255556"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel built as The County and Station Hotel, latterly The County Hotel. Dated and inscribed on pediments G.H.H. (George Head Head, a Carlisle Banker) 1852; by Anthony Salvin; 1866-8 extension by Cory and Ferguson of Carlisle. Partly rusticated stucco on chamfered plinth with rusticated pilaster quoins, string course, sill band and cornice. Graduated greenslate mansard roof with shaped pedimental dormers; C20 copper pavilion roof on tower with ornamental rail to apex. Panelled stucco ridge and gable chimney stacks. Main facade, 3 storey, 5 bays with 15-bay return; further 2 bays at left over archway of Collier Lane; left projecting 5-storey, 3-bay tower is an 1866-8 addition. Main facade has central C20 glazed doors up steps in quoined segmental arch, under a glazed canopy. Raised pilastered bay above surmounted by a segmental pediment with decorative coat-of-arms. Sash windows, those on upper floors with glazing bars; cornice hoods on first floor, pedimental over entrance; second floor smaller windows, that over entrance with festoon; shaped dormers. Left bays have C20 shop door and window; the archway is quoined with head keystone; sash windows similar to facade but without second floor sill band and dormers without pediments. Return of facade was added C19. C20 bay windows but original rusticated pilasters and overall signboard. Top storey has 5 round-headed window arcade in pilastered suround with balustraded aprons. Bracketed cornice and open fretted parapet."
"INTERIOR: The main rooms have elaborate ribbed plaster ceilings on ground floor; the ballroom which forms part of the 1866-8 extensions is of particular interest retaining much original detail, but otherwise rooms extensively altered to meet modern requirements. A labyrinth of cellars."
"HISTORY: The Carlisle Journal, 20 December 1851 records "the building of the new hotel in Court Square has this week been let by tender to Mr Robinson of Penrith. The cost is to be "11,900". Queen Victoria visited the hotel for a meal in 1853 (Cumberland News, 30 December 1983). Meason (1859) gives an engraving of the hotel with the Collier Lane arch (some think this was added later see Robinson (1986)). For further details see Allibone (1988). An 1865 photograph shows that the tower had not yet been built. Plans for the 1866 additions, using Fox and Barrett's fireproof floors are in Cumbria Council Record Office, CA/E4/766 and 773."
"Carlisle Journal: 20 December 1851"
"Cumberland News: 30 December 1983"
"Meason, George: Illust. Guide to the Lancaster, Carlisle and Caledonian Railways: 1859-: P.56"
"Robinson, Peter W: Rail Centres: Carlisle: 1986-: P.97-8"
"Allibone, Jill: Anthony Salvin: 1988-: P.183-184"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Formerly known as: The County Hotel BOTCHERGATE."
"Includes: The Cumbrian Hotel (part) COURT SQUARE. Also known as: Fletchers BOTCHERGATE."
"Hotel extension and hall, over shop and bar, originally forming part of The Cumbrian Hotel in Court Square. 1866-8 by Cory and Ferguson. Painted brick with rusticated pilastered quoins, string courses and modillioned brick eaves cornice. Slate roof (not visible from the street) with gabled dormers; original painted brick end and ridge chimney stacks. 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Central C20 doors and fanlight in paired colonnette surround under glazed canopy. Flanking C20 shop windows within original shop openings under signboards with ball finials. Arcade of small paired casements above in deep brick recesses with modillions; pair above entrance within pilasters carried up from doorway. Paired sash windows above have flattened and rounded heads, those on first floor with patterned aprons and those on second floor with central colonnette, all in brick reveals. Carved stone cross between arcade windows marks the site of the former freelidge stone showing the city boundary. The stone had originally been at pavement level."
"INTERIOR has been extensively altered. Plans for this are in Cumbria County Record Office, CA/E4/766 and 773, dated 22 February 1866. Forms an integral part of the ballroom of The Cumbrian Hotel (qv) as this building extends over it."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  County Bar, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE COUNTY BAR / 2, 4 AND 6 / BOTCHERGATE / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386632 / NY4028055566"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Formerly known as: The County Hotel BOTCHERGATE."
"Includes: The Cumbrian Hotel (part) COURT SQUARE. Also known as: Fletchers BOTCHERGATE."
"Hotel extension and hall, over shop and bar, originally forming part of The Cumbrian Hotel in Court Square. 1866-8 by Cory and Ferguson. Painted brick with rusticated pilastered quoins, string courses and modillioned brick eaves cornice. Slate roof (not visible from the street) with gabled dormers; original painted brick end and ridge chimney stacks. 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Central C20 doors and fanlight in paired colonnette surround under glazed canopy. Flanking C20 shop windows within original shop openings under signboards with ball finials. Arcade of small paired casements above in deep brick recesses with modillions; pair above entrance within pilasters carried up from doorway. Paired sash windows above have flattened and rounded heads, those on first floor with patterned aprons and those on second floor with central colonnette, all in brick reveals. Carved stone cross between arcade windows marks the site of the former freelidge stone showing the city boundary. The stone had originally been at pavement level."
"INTERIOR has been extensively altered. Plans for this are in Cumbria County Record Office, CA/E4/766 and 773, dated 22 February 1866. Forms an integral part of the ballroom of The Cumbrian Hotel (qv) as this building extends over it."

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