THE SITE of a well-known former Carlisle pub is on the market for an initial asking price of £250,000. The third-of-an-acre plot used to be the location of the Prince of Wales pub, on the corner of Denton Street and Northumberland Street. The pub closed in 2004, and was demolished in 2010 after a devastating fire on Christmas Eve 2009 - the land has been vacant ever since. It s due to be sold at a public online auction by Merseyside based auctioneers Pugh & Company Ltd, with bidding starting on January 19 and finishing the next day. Previous planing permission to build homes and a commercial outlet on the site, by Harraby based Top Notch Contractors Ltd, had been granted permission in 2010.
The president of a historical preservation organization in Denton said he expects the U.S. Parks Service to designate a residential neighborhood here as a National Register District, making it the second one in the city.
âItâs called the West Denton Residential Historic District by the Texas Historical Commission,â Randy Hunt of Historic Denton said. âWork started in 2015, and it took three years to get the survey adopted and accepted by THC. It was approved in September 2018.â
The survey is required by the THC before historic designations are granted. They include photos, maps and descriptions of the area. Huntâs West Denton Residential Historic District survey is 118 pages.