72-80, ETTERBY STREET

This is a terrace of five houses, built in the 1840s in Carlisle. The houses are constructed of Flemish bond brickwork, with light-coloured brick headers on a chamfered stone plinth. Nos. 78 and 80 have a partly modillioned cornice. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate and include original shared ridge and end brick chimney stacks. The terrace steps with the slope of the hill, arranged in groups. Each house originally had two bays, except No. 76 which has three. The left and right doorways have 20th-century doors; Nos. 72-76 have fanlights, some with radial patterns, all within pilastered surrounds featuring false keys and impost blocks. Nos. 78 and 80 have projecting stuccoed porches with depressed pointed arches. The windows are sash windows, some with glazing bars within painted stone architraves. No. 72 has a paired doorway, with the one on the right leading to a through passage. No. 76 has a through-passage door matching the front door's detailing. No. 78 has a through-passage plank door in a painted stone surround. The central two bays of Nos. 78 and 80 project. The interiors were not inspected. These houses do not appear on the 1840 tithe map, but are shown on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map.