10-30, TAIT STREET (See details for further address information)

A terrace of eleven houses with one on return, built in the early 1850s in two phases. The houses are constructed with Flemish bond brickwork, featuring light brick headers on a chamfered plinth, with the exception of number 10, where the dressings are unpainted. The roofs are graduated, covered in local slate with 19th-century shared ridge chimney stacks. Stone brackets support metal gutters.

The houses are two storeys high, with two bays each. Numbers 12 to 26 have doorways on either side of a central dividing through-passage. These doorways have panelled doors (some 20th-century replacements) leading up steps, set within columned surrounds topped by radial fanlights, all within brick reveals and stone lintels. The other houses have similar doorways but without the through-passages. The windows are sash and casement types; only number 14 has glazing bars on the upper floor. Small basement windows are located under each ground floor window, with pavement grilles. Number 30 has a two-bay return that is partially number 1 James Terrace, and a further single-bay extension also forms part of number 1 James Terrace.

The interiors have not been inspected. Numbers 14 to 30 were originally built and are illustrated in Asquith’s Survey of Carlisle from 1853; the remaining houses were added shortly afterwards. The street was named after Dean Tait, who arrived in Carlisle in 1850, and later became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1868.