The Abbey Tavern
THE ABBEY TAVERN, ABBEY APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025255
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- THE ABBEY TAVERN, ABBEY APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025255
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ABBEY TAVERN, ABBEY APPROACH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ABBEY TAVERN, ABBEY APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrow
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 21794 71956
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27SW ABBEY APPROACH 708-1/4/8 The Abbey Tavern 06/05/76
GV II
Public house. Early C19, extended 1848. Red sandstone, slate roofs. 3 and 2 storeys, 2:3 windows to 1st floor. 3-storey part on left: 3 pointed arched openings with later 3-light traceried windows; lancet window on right. 1st floor has transomed 4-light window with king mullion and hoodmould; double-transomed stair window on right with pointed-arched lights and continuous dripmould. 2nd floor has stepped 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould and relieving arch. Roll-moulded gable copings with finial, continuous parapet wall and small gable over the stair window. Side gables; external end stack on right. 2-storey part: C20 door through transomed 4-light window on left; mullioned and transomed 2- and 3-light windows on right have dripmoulds; offset buttress at right corner. 1st floor: cross-windows with pointed-arched lights; moulded eaves band; roll-moulded gable copings; external end stack on right has offsets and moulded cap. 1-storey outbuildings against right return. Represents a fragment of a substantial hotel that served the Furness Railway. The hotel had been rebuilt from the remains of the C17 house of Sir Thomas Preston but was largely demolished in 1951 and 1954. The ground floor of the 3-storey part was formerly enclosed by a verandah. (Dickinson J C: Furness Abbey: London: 1987-: 18-19; Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL 82, 83).
Listing NGR: SD2193271852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1982), 82 83
Dickinson, J C, Furness Abbey, (1987), 18-19
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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