Conservatory at west end of park

Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239155
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1974
List Entry Name:: Conservatory at west end of park
Statutory Address:: Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

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Date:: 1999-09-18
Reference:: IOE01/01668/29
Rights:: © Mr R F Shaw. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239155
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1974
List Entry Name:: Conservatory at west end of park
Statutory Address 1:: Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 67252 28884

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/09/2019

SD 62 NE 5/51

CORPORATION PARK Conservatory at west end of park

II Conservatory, 1902 by W Richardson and Co (Darlington). Principal elevation faces south-east. Central rectangular house, gabled, with clock in pediment. Regular-coursed stone plinth, otherwise all glass and iron, richly ornamented with arches, pierced spandrels, columns etc. Central tapering octagonal ventilator with ogee dome and flagpole, above an ogee-arcaded belfry. At right-angles are flanking lower wings with polygonal ends, iron cresting, and flying veranda roofs. Good example of late-Victorian conservatory style.

Listing NGR: SD6725228884

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Legacy System number:: 416904
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hartwell, C, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Lancashire North, (2009), 124

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.