Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome
CONTROL TOWER AT BARTON AERODROME, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067500
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome
- Statutory Address:
- CONTROL TOWER AT BARTON AERODROME, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067500
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONTROL TOWER AT BARTON AERODROME, LIVERPOOL 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:
- CONTROL TOWER AT BARTON AERODROME, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74396 97190
Details
ECCLES LIVERPOOL ROAD SJ 79 NW (north side) 3/8 Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome - II Air traffic control tower. c.1937. Brick with reinforced concrete roofs. 3-stage octagonal tower rises from a single-storey podium with small radiating wings at 4 corners. The podium has a coped parapet above a soldier course and various doors and windows with glazing bars. The tower has a glazed upper stage with concrete balcony and steel railings. Access is gained by an external reinforced concrete dogleg stair. Barton was the first municipal airport in the world when it opened in 1930. The control tower was reported in the press in 1937 as "the first air traffic control station".
Listing NGR: SJ7439697190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 211941
- 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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