13 And 15, English Street

Nos. 13 and 15 English Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with offices above. It dates from the early 19th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building features painted stucco walls with V-jointed quoins and all dressings made of painted stone. It has a Welsh slate roof and a shared end brick chimney stack. The structure is three storeys high and originally consisted of three bays, serving as one house before being divided into No. 13 for the shop and No. 15 for the offices above, with an entrance on the return to Kings Arms Lane.

The left side has a late 20th-century shop window, while the right side retains an original quoined carriage arch with a segmental head, which serves as the entrance to Kings Arms Lane. The upper floor features sash windows with glazing bars set in architraves. The return on Kings Arms Lane is three storeys high and includes two storeys of numerous bays. There is only one original door with a radial fanlight in a pilastered surround, complete with a false key and imposts. Additionally, there is one original window, which has been boarded over, set in a stone architrave that has been partly cut away, with shutter hinge brackets still visible.

The interior of the ground floor has been extensively altered. Historically, an 1835 painting of the Market Place by W.H. Nutter, held at Carlisle Museum, is the first known depiction of this building, which did not have a front entrance from English Street at that time. A photograph from 1857, featured in the exhibition catalogue "Nineteenth Century Carlisle" in 1971 at Carlisle Museum, shows the building with Flemish bond brickwork before it was covered in stucco.