15 And 17, Lowther Street

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/205 (West side) Nos.15 AND 17

GV II

Entrance to arcade of 2 shops with offices above. Dated 1904 for the Carlisle Old Brewery Company by Henry Higginson of Carlisle. Red brick with rusticated and alternate block quoins (all dressings of calciferous sandstone), sill bands and modillioned cornice. Welsh slate mansard roof with boxed dormers and coped gables; red brick end and ridge chimney stacks. 3 and a half storeys, 3 bays. Central through flattened archway gives access to Lowther Arcade; flanking C20 shop windows within original rusticated pilasters, carried around the returns under the arch. Above the central bay has alternate block quoins; all windows are tripartite with alternate-block columns; the window over the arch is bowed and above is a carved scrolled panel inscribed LOWTHER ARCADE. Central open pediment with keystone feature. INTERIOR not inspected. Plans for this building in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/13541, were approved 19 June 1903; its style was to match the Three Crowns Hotel in English Street, at the other end of the arcade (now The Citadel) which was built earlier to the same architect's designs.

Listing NGR: NY4023655729