Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Gallagher's Irish Bar, Carlisle
	Gallagher's Irish Bar
	Golden Lion
Street:-	St Nicholas Street
locality:-	Carlisle
civil parish:-	Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	inn
coordinates:-	NY40625528
1Km square:-	NY4055
10Km square:-	NY45
references:-	Listed Buildings 2010
	CAE90.jpg  Innsign, with a shamrock. (taken 30.3.2014)   CAE89.jpg (taken 30.3.2014)
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:-  Golden Lion
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "THE GOLDEN LION PUBLIC HOUSE / 2 AND 4 / ST NICHOLAS STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386852 / NY4062455286"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Probably originally 3 houses, now public house. Early C19 with 1879 and 1897 alterations. Painted stucco walls, on chamfered plinth, with angle pilasters, sill band and eaves cornice. Graduated local slate roof with hipped corner; C19 ridge and end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 unequal bays, with 5-bay return facing onto Princess Street. Facade has paired central panelled doors and overlights separated by engaged column in pilastered surround. Flanking canted bay casement windows under overall signboard with stucco cornice, continued round the return and supported by pilasters. Raised 2 bays over doorways have paired sash windows. These and other upper floor windows are in plain reveals. Angled doorway on corner. Return has right doorway and large ground-floor casements in pilastered surrounds. Upper floor windows similar to facade." "INTERIOR has etched and stained leaded-glass doors and panels. Plans in Cumbria County Record Office show internal alterations approved 28 February 1879, Ca/E4/1070; further alterations introduced the bay windows and unification of what had been No.1 Princess Street into the building, approved 1897, Ca/E4/12958."

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