1, GREENMARKET (See details for further address information)

CARLISLE

NY4055NW CASTLE STREET 671-1/12/76 (East side) 13/11/72 Nos.77-83 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: No.1 GREENMARKET. House now 3 shops. Late C18. Painted render over brick (partly exposed at time of survey) with V-jointed quoins and broad pilasters; lead downpipes with rainwater heads, one inscribed R & M E. C20 slate roof, vestige of rendered end chimney stack; roof level of No.77 is slightly higher. 3 storeys, 7 bays. Central C20 glazed door and fanlight in bolection doorcase with imposts and carved-leaf keystone. Ground floor C20 shop windows. Pilasters divide facade into single and double bays. Sash windows in segmental-headed painted stone surrounds with false keystones. Inscribed panel over central window says SIR WALTER SCOTT WAS MARRIED FROM THIS HOUSE DEC 24TH 1797. Return gable wall becomes No.1 Greenmarket. INTERIOR of Nos 79-83 was of interest, but gutted in 1989 - Carlisle Museum photographed interior before work commenced. For other views of interior see Slee (1915). Correspondence in Cumbria County Record Office shows which house was the one associated with Walter Scott. (Slee, Mary: Older Carlisle: 1951-: P.8-9).

Listing NGR: NY4002055962