Currock House Community Centre

Currock House Community Centre is an early 19th-century house, now a community centre, located on Lediard Avenue, Carlisle. The building is constructed of calciferous sandstone ashlar, set on a chamfered plinth, with a string course, cornice, and a solid parapet. It has a hipped graduated greenslate roof and ashlar ridge chimney stacks.

The house is two storeys high, with a symmetrical facade of three bays, along with two-bay returns, and a lower, two-storey, two-bay domestic range to the rear, arranged around a double-depth central-stair plan. A central panelled door is situated within an enclosed pilastered porch, and is overlit by a patterned glass panel. Sash windows with glazing bars are set in plain stone reveals with recessed aprons; the side window bays project slightly. Canted ashlar bay windows feature on the right return, and the upper floor windows of that return are similar to those on the main facade. Lean-to outbuildings are situated on the left return, and 1937 extensions extend to the rear.

The interior features a rounded stair arch with an incised Greek-key design and panelled soffit. The stone staircase has patterned cast-iron balusters and a moulded wooden handrail, with a large round-headed stair window. Replacement doors are set within moulded wooden architraves, and panelled shutters are present, although some rooms appear to have only panelled reveals. Principal rooms contain marble fireplaces with cast-iron insets and grates, and moulded plaster cornices adorn the ceilings.

A house named "Cuddick" – the historic name for Currock – is shown on Greenwoods Map of Cumberland from 1823. The Carlisle Journal of 1934 suggests a "late Georgian" date, and Robert Cowen of "Currick" is listed in Pigot & Co’s 1828-9 Directory. The Cumberland News (1984) suggests a building date of 1842. However, the property called "Currick" on the 1841 census was occupied by William Carruthers and his wife Sarah. The estate was purchased by the City Council in 1932, with the partial demolition of stables to provide stone for an extension to Eden Bridge. In 1934, it became a community centre and briefly served as a Youth Hostel Association (YHA) hostel for Carlisle.