Former Gasworks
FORMER GASWORKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087586
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gasworks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GASWORKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087586
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gasworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GASWORKS
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:
- FORMER GASWORKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cumbria
- District:
- Carlisle (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farlam
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 56429 60001
Details
NY 55 NE FARLAM KIRKHOUSE NY 56 SE
2/36, 6/36 Former Gasworks
II
Former colliery gasworks. Dated 1883 for Messrs Thompson, lessee of the Earl of Carlisle's collieries. Calciferous hammer-dressed sandstone, with rusticated quoins and dressings; corrugated asbestos roof and Welsh slate, with coped gables and kneelers. Small single-storey building with short square tapering chimney; adjoining 2-storey tower with pyramidal roof has projecting single- storey 2-bay extension. End entrance has been enlarged (c1920 when building was converted to colliery foundry) with iron girder and C20 brick, date stone above and shaped gable. Unglazed side window. Tower to right has plank door and similar unglazed opening. Extension has plank doors. Gasworks had no external cylinder and supplied gas for colliery works nearby. Externally complete, but no internal fitments. Derelict at time of resurvey.
Listing NGR: NY5642960001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78027
- 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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