Nos 24 And 26 Including Railings To Front

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/208 (East side) 01/06/49 Nos.24 AND 26 including railings to front (Formerly Listed as: LOWTHER STREET No 24 (County Club) and No 26 (Royal Insurance))

GV II

2 houses, now bank and offices. 1830s. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, rusticated on ground floor, with string course, eaves cornice and open balustraded parapet. Graduated slate roof; rendered ridge and end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays each; double-depth plan; Cellar voids retain their patterned cast-iron railings and steps down to cellar doors. Left entrances up steps have panelled doors and overlight in Roman Doric prostyle porches under false open parapets. Sash windows (with glazing bars in No.26) in plain stone reveals in cellar and ground floor; in stone architraves above with cornices and pierced aprons. Attic windows in eared architraves. INTERIORS retain much original detail; panelled doors in eared architraves and panelled internal shutters at some first-floor windows. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices embellished with angle heads in hallway of No.26. Panelled plaster ceiling arches at stairs. Original stone stairs with patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrails.

Listing NGR: NY4025955848