Dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1981. Dispensary. 2 related planning applications.
Dispensary
- WRENN ID
- vacant-bronze-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1981
- Type
- Dispensary
- Address
- Dispensary, Chapel Street, CA1 1JA
- OS grid reference
- NY 402 560
- Coordinates
- 54.8956, -2.93297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Dispensary, now unoccupied, was built in 1857 by John Hodgson of Carlisle. It is constructed from calciferous sandstone ashlar on a squared plinth and features a modillioned eaves cornice. The slate roof, which is not visible from the ground, has coped gables and original ridge brick chimney stacks with moulded stone caps. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. It has a left panelled door with an overlight set within a pedimented pilastered doorcase. The ground floor includes sash windows in stone architraves, which are topped with pediments. A central inscribed stone plaque at eye level notes the founding of the dispensary in 1782 and the renovation of this building in 1934. The Carlisle Journal from March 26, 1858, mentions the opening of this building, and the plans dated 1857 can be found in the Cumbria County Record Office. For further historical context, see WP Honeyman's work from 1982. Illustrations of the building can be found in the Journal of the North West Civic Trust from Spring 1985.
Local climate
Dispensary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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