5-61, St Nicholas Street

This is a terrace of 28 houses located on St Nicholas Street, Carlisle. Built in the 1840s and early 1850s, the terrace is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork, with light brick headers, although some houses have been rendered. The houses sit on a chamfered stone plinth and feature stone-bracketed metal gutters. Most have a Welsh slate roof, though numbers 51-61 have a higher roofline with a hipped design, along with shared brick chimney stacks.

The houses are arranged over two storeys, with some of a single-bay and others of two bays, and follow a double-depth plan; some may have originally been back-to-back and subsequently knocked through. Each pair of houses has a left and right-hand door, typically 20th century replacements, within original pilastered surrounds. The houses are separated by round-arched passageways leading to a courtyard at the rear, each featuring a plank door and occasionally a radial fanlight. The windows are mostly 20th-century casements set within brick reveals, with stone sills, flat brick arches, and shutter hinge blocks. The two-bay houses have a window positioned above the archways. Numbers 5-17 have windows set within stone architraves. Number 21 incorporates a 20th-century shop window. Number 25 previously had a 20th-century shop front, but has been replaced with a sash window in 1990. The passageway between numbers 53 and 55 is unusually large, featuring double doors. Number 61 was formerly the White Ox Inn; its ground-floor shop window has been blocked and replaced with a 20th-century sash window. A stucco panel, formerly displaying a sign depicting an ox (now with a 1989 mural of a pastoral scene and the ox converted to a cow), is situated on the rounded corner. This feature is now shown on Ordnance Survey maps as part of number 11 Woodrouffe Terrace. The interiors were not inspected. These houses do not appear on the 1842 map of Carlisle but are shown on the 1848 Tithe Map. Historical records from the Carlisle Journal in 1877 mention the sale of the White Ox beer house on St Nicholas Street.