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Carlisle: Castle Street, 3
Street:-   Castle Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY39815610
1Km square:-   NY3956
10Km square:-   NY35
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BXH71.jpg (taken 17.9.2012)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 3 / CASTLE STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386649 / NY3981456104"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House now office. 1840s for George Gill Mounsey. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on chamfered stone plinth, with raised quoins, string course, cornice and solid parapet. Slate roof; C19 and C20 end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 symmetrical bays. Full-height recessed central bay has raised quoins. Central C20 panelled door with overlight in tetrastyle pilastered surround under plain entablature and cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves, those on upper floor with cornices; aprons on the ground floor and over entrance."
"INTERIOR has panelled doors in wooden architraves. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices; hall scrolled brackets. Internal stone staircase has patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Some plain painted stone fire surrounds. For details on the Mounsey family and their standing in the community, see Country Life (7 September 1989). (Country Life: Worsley, Giles: 7 September 1989; Castletown House, Cumberland: P.134-9)."

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