Leighton Furnace Barn
LEIGHTON FURNACE BARN, BRACKENTHWAITE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147108
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Leighton Furnace Barn
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGHTON FURNACE BARN, BRACKENTHWAITE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147108
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Leighton Furnace Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGHTON FURNACE BARN, BRACKENTHWAITE 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:
- LEIGHTON FURNACE BARN, BRACKENTHWAITE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- The Yealands
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48469 77815
Details
SD 47 NE YEALAND REDMAYNE BRACKENTHWAITE ROAD
1/300 Leighton Furnace Barn II
Barn thought to be the 'Great Coal House' of Leighton Furnace, which opened in 1718. Limestone rubble with slate roof. West wall blank with two blocked 1st floor doorways. East wall has openings with plain reveals. From left to right are: a small window; a door, now a shippon; a wide opening to a modern implement store with a wooden lintel and some brick dressings; a wide barn entrance with segmental head. The north gable has a wide opening with wooden lintel. The south gable, at the upper end of the slope, has a 1st floor pitching hole with wooden lintel. Interior. Roof trusses appear to have hardwood principals and softwood ties. The barn seems to be contemporary with the ruined ore store nearby. It is comparable with the Great Coal House at Duddon Furnace, but is in a far better state of preservation. Fell, Alfred The early iron industry of Furness and District . 1908, reprinted 1968, p.210. `
Listing NGR: SD4846977815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fell, A, The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District, (1908), 210
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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