48, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. House and restaurant. 4 related planning applications.
48, Abbey Street
- WRENN ID
- grim-zinc-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- House and restaurant
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CARLISLE
NY3955NE ABBEY STREET 671-1/10/45 (West side) 01/06/49 No.48
GV II
House and workshop, now house and restaurant. Late C17 or early C18 with later alterations and C19 workshop. Painted brick walls on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof; C20 ridge brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Right 3 bays symmetrical, have central panelled door in bolection architrave with pulvinated frieze and cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars in C19 painted stone surround; to left C18 sash window with glazing bars in brick reveals under flattened arch and false keystone. The left return wall is built partly on the reduced medieval wall of the adjoining Priory of St Mary. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: When a school in the early C19, Thomas Bouch, the engineer and designer of the ill-fated Tay Bridge, was a pupil here.
Listing NGR: NY3979455962
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