16-19, Portland Square

This is a terrace of four houses, now offices, located at 16-19 Portland Square in Carlisle. Built in the 1870s or 1880s, the terrace comprises two pairs of houses, each pair treated symmetrically. The houses are constructed of calciferous sandstone ashlar on a chamfered plinth, with a graduated slate roof and tall white brick chimney stacks on the front roof slope. They are two and a half storeys high, with basements, and each house has two bays. The central pair of houses feature paired, centrally placed panelled doors with stone architraves and hoodmoulds, accessed by steps. The flanking houses have identical doorways on the left and right sides, also with steps. Between the doorways are two canted bay windows. Upper floor sash windows are present, with paired windows above the bay windows. The roof is punctuated by dormer windows: a central pair under a pent roof, two flanking gabled dormers, and a single dormer at each end under pent roofs. Each upper-floor window has a scrolled apron. The interiors have not been inspected.