Storeroom For Newsdale Construction
STOREROOM FOR NEWSDALE CONSTRUCTION, RITSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138180
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Storeroom For Newsdale Construction
- Statutory Address:
- STOREROOM FOR NEWSDALE CONSTRUCTION, RITSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138180
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Storeroom For Newsdale Construction
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOREROOM FOR NEWSDALE CONSTRUCTION, RITSON STREET
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:
- STOREROOM FOR NEWSDALE CONSTRUCTION, RITSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Workington
- National Grid Reference:
- NY0049528482
Details
NY 0028 WORKINGTON RITSON STREET (North
side) Workington
10/70 Storeroom for
Newsdale Construction
II
Lock-up, now storeroom. Dated and inscribed over entrance BUILT BY SUBSCRIPTION
IN 1805 ANNUAL GROUND RENT TWO SHILLINGS FOR EVE .... (remainder weathered
away). Snecked calciferous ashlar with barrel-vaulted roof of same material.
Single storey, 2 bays. Plain boarded door in plain opening and similar blocked
doorway to right. Left return wall has plank door in brick surround; both
return walls have slit vents. Workington is known to have had a lock-up, but no
records state where it was, although this can be the only explanation of this
unusual building.
Listing NGR: NY0049528482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72295
- 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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