Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Turf Inn | |
| parish |
Carlisle city, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| inn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY40305646 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY45
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY4056 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| THE TURF INN / / NEWARK TERRACE / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386810 / NY4030356468 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Grandstand hotel for the racecourse, now public house and restaurant. 1839-40 for the shareholders, with 1874 extension by Daniel Birkett. Snecked calciferous sandstone ashlar (all dressings of this stone) on chamfered plinth with angle pilasters, string courses and cornice. Patterned cast-iron parapet railings. Sloping graduated local slate roof with central opening; formerly stepped as grandstand hence the central access; ashlar end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 5 bays with 2-storey, 5-bay extension. The Newark Terrace facade has central double door and overlight in pilastered surround with cornice. 3 central bays project slightly for full 3 storeys. C20 sash windows in stone surrounds. The right return has external stone steps with cast-iron railings, leading to stone porch at first floor level. Extension has C20 off-centre doors under C20 wooden bracketed porch. C20 casement windows, central ones on both floors have cross mullion. Prominent machicolated chimney. The 3-storey block slopes to 2 storeys at rear; central C20 door and overlight in pilastered surround. Left C20 door and overlight in stone reveals. C20 windows in plain reveals, those on upper floor paired. | ||
| INTERIOR has been gutted, except extension which retains its cast-iron columns supporting open timber roof trusses. | ||
| HISTORY: Carlisle Journal (1840) stated that the building was then almost completed. Plans for the extension are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/362. For an early C20 photograph see Perriam (1989), this shows the upper floor originally had large casement windows and a balcony. The racecourse closed in 1904 and this continued as a pub with a bowling green on the original paddock. Purchased from the State Control Board in 1972 and left unoccupied and ruinous until renovated in 1988. | ||
| Carlisle Journal: 27 June 1840 | ||
| Perriam DR: Carlisle in Camera 2: 1989-: P.40 | ||
| placename:- | Turf Inn | |
| district:- | Carlisle | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY40305646 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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