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Cavendish House, Carlisle
Cavendish House
Street:-   Warwick Road
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40555586
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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CCH18.jpg (taken 30.1.2015)  

evidence:-   probably old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 4) 
placename:-  Cavendish Place
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cavendish House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CAVENDISH HOUSE / 83 / WARWICK ROAD / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386897 / NY4055955866"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House forming part of a terrace. 1832 for the Reverend Thomas Woodrow. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone) with V-jointed quoins and eaves cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and dormer windows; rebuilt end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays; double-depth; central stair plan. Central panelled door and overlight, up steps, in prostyle Ionic porch. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves; basement casement windows."
"INTERIOR not inspected."
"The Carlisle Journal (1918) mentions the deeds which are dated 1832 and the association of this house with Thomas Woodrow, grandfather of USA President Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow was minister at the Annetwell Street Chapel in the city, but he and his family emigrated to the USA. Carlisle Journal (1836) records the death of his wife. (Carlisle Journal: 31 December 1918; Carlisle Journal: 26 March 1836)."

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