Abbey Gate Cottages
ABBEY GATE COTTAGES, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025265
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Gate Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY GATE COTTAGES, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025265
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Gate Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY GATE COTTAGES, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- ABBEY GATE COTTAGES, ABBEY ROAD
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 21687 72263
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27SW ABBEY ROAD 708-1/4/10 (South East side) 06/05/76 Abbey Gate Cottages
GV II
Pair of cottages now 1 dwelling. Dated 1873. By Paley and Austin. For the Furness Railway Company (plan). Dressed, snecked red sandstone, red tile roofs. Elongated single-storey range with 2, gabled cross-wings, that on left with attic storey. Chamfered plinth, ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. Projecting gable on left has Tudor-arched doorway on right of 4-light transomed window having casements with glazing bars and relieving arch; 4-light attic window and gable slit beneath pierced, wave-patterned bargeboard. Centre has 'ABBEY GATE COTTAGES 1873' on plaque flanked by 3-light windows. Projecting gable to right lit by 4-light transomed window beneath slit and pierced bargeboard; main range to right has door beneath eaves and gabled right return. Left end of main range has front catslide and 3-light window in left return. Ashlar stacks to each crosswing, to centre and to left end have grouped octagonal flues on shared bases (right crosswing stack truncated). C20 flat-roofed addition to rear not of special interest. (Building Plans Register: 1872-: NO.317).
Listing NGR: SD2168772263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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