Liberal Club

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/210 (West side) 01/06/49 No.35 Liberal Club (Formerly Listed as: LOWTHER STREET (West side) Nos.35, 37 AND 39)

GV II

House now club. Early 1830s for Elizabeth Dacre. Calciferous sandstone ashlar facade (other walls of brick) chamfered plinth, cornice and solid parapet. Graduated greenslate roof with dormer windows; C19 end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays, double-depth, left-stair plan. Steps up to central in antis doorway under overall radial fanlight. Sash window above with glazing bars in stone architrave; small patterned bowed cast-iron balcony. Flanking full-height bowed bays with triple sash windows and glazing bars in stone surrounds. INTERIOR has moulded plaster ceiling cornices with roundels. False ceilings on ground floor may conceal further plasterwork. Original staircase has scrolled wrought-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Many original panelled doors in panelled reveals with eared architraves. HISTORY: see Robert Fell (1981). He dates the house to c1840, but as Mrs Dacre lived on English Street and sold that house in 1831 (Carlisle Journal 1831), this would seem to be the date she moved into the new house. Brown (1951) says "Mrs Dacre's 3 houses in Lowther Street, one of which in that with the bow windows, was constructed purposely for her to give entertainments in and had a huge drawing-room running from front to back." (Fell, Robert: Carlisle Liberal Club Limited - Centenary 1881-1981: 1981-; Carlisle Journal: 26 March 1831; Brown JW: Round Carlisle Cross: 1951-: P.116).

Listing NGR: NY4022155807