11, English Street

No. 11 English Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with storage space above. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, featuring V-jointed calciferous sandstone quoins and a dentilled cornice. It has a graduated greenslate roof and a rebuilt brick chimney stack at one end. The structure is three storeys high and consists of three bays. The entire ground floor has a late 20th-century shop front, while the upper floors have sash windows set in painted stone architraves.

Inside, the ground floor has been extensively altered. A painting by an unknown artist, housed in Carlisle Museum, depicts the ground floor when it was still a house. In 1816, the building became home to Thurnams, a stationer and printer, who operated there until the 1960s. An 1835 painting of the Market Place by WH Nutter, also in Carlisle Museum, shows the building as Thurnams. Additionally, an 1860s photograph from the William Brown Library in Liverpool features the James Steel statue with this building in the background, still displaying its original ground floor. Later modifications to the ground floor included a canopy supported by four surviving brackets.