The Carlton

Money has been provided by the Government, Cumberland Council and Sellafield Ltd.

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This scheme will breathe new life into this historic building on the corner of Senhouse Street and High Street. It will become a focus for local arts and crafts, music, theatre, and entertainment with features including a flexible performance space with café bar, box office, flexible artists’ studio, and sound studios. They will be accessible and available for use by the local community, schools and performers. 

The Carlton development will also involve the demolition and redevelopment of a neighbouring empty property at 28 Senhouse Street to allow the creation of a new box office and café, complete with landscaped courtyard. Bricked up windows on the first floor will be opened up and the vaulted ceiling exposed with rooflights installed, flooding the building with natural light.

Whitehaven-based BEC, formerly Britain’s Energy Coast, is managing this project on behalf of Cumberland Council.