Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front
- WRENN ID
- tilted-railing-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front, Lowther Street, CA3 8DA
- OS grid reference
- NY 402 558
- Coordinates
- 54.89379, -2.93297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 24 and 26 are two houses from the 1830s, now serving as a bank and offices. They are constructed from calciferous sandstone ashlar, featuring rustication on the ground floor, a string course, an eaves cornice, and an open balustraded parapet. The roof is covered with graduated slate and has rendered ridge and end chimney stacks. Each house has three storeys and three bays, with a double-depth plan. The cellar voids still have their patterned cast-iron railings and steps leading down to the cellar doors.
The left entrances are accessed via steps and have panelled doors with overlights, set in Roman Doric prostyle porches that are topped with false open parapets. The sash windows, which have glazing bars in No. 26, are set in plain stone reveals on the cellar and ground floor, and in stone architraves above, complete with cornices and pierced aprons. The attic windows are framed in eared architraves.
Inside, the buildings retain much original detail, including panelled doors in eared architraves and panelled internal shutters at some first-floor windows. No. 26 features moulded plaster ceiling cornices with angle heads in the hallway, as well as panelled plaster ceiling arches at the stairs. The original stone stairs are complemented by patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrails.
Local climate
Nos 24 and 26 Including Railings to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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