Former Gas Works Buildings at Gas Works Farm
FORMER GAS WORKS BUILDINGS AT GAS WORKS FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154552
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gas Works Buildings at Gas Works Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GAS WORKS BUILDINGS AT GAS WORKS FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154552
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gas Works Buildings at Gas Works Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GAS WORKS BUILDINGS AT GAS WORKS FARM
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 GAS WORKS BUILDINGS AT GAS WORKS FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Felton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18315 00364
Details
FELTON B 6345 NU 1800 (East side) 8/4/87 Felton Former Gas Works 12/101 buildings at Gas Works Farm II
Gas Works, mid-C19. Squared stone with cut dressings and brick buttress; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular retort house with outbuilding range to south. East elevation: Retort house single storey, 2 bays. Central round-arched doorway; semicircular window to right with iron-framed radial glazing, stone surround and slightly-projecting sill; stable door with 4-pane overlight to left; broad raking buttress at left end. Coped gables; broad square stack, projecting from left return, now terminates a little above roof ridge since brick upper part removed. To left is lower 4-bay outbuilding; former arcade of round arches altered, except for blocked arch at right end; coped left end gable.
Rear elevation (to road): Retort house shows 2 iron-framed semicircular windows with cemented-over roundel between.
Interior: Retort house has roof structure entirely composed of iron rods, to reduce fire risk.
Rare example of small rural gasworks. The outbuilding range, in poor condition at time of survey, is included for group value.
Listing NGR: NU1831500364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236770
- 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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