Graving Dock
GRAVING DOCK, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197847
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Graving Dock
- Statutory Address:
- GRAVING DOCK, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197847
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Graving Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAVING DOCK, NORTH 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:
- GRAVING DOCK, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19000 69208
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD16NE NORTH ROAD 708-1/5/97 (West side (off)) Graving Dock
II
Graving dock. Opened 1.8.1872 (Barnes). Red sandstone. Round-ended inlet measuring 500x60 feet (approx 150x18m) with entrance from Walney Channel at north-west end. Entrance has battered walls and limestone slot for caisson. The remainder has tiered sides with steps near the entrance and with intermediate buttresses. Rounded end has steps formed over inlet hole and Roman numerals marking water depth. Now forms part of Maritime Museum site; the south-east end of the dock now within museum building. Shown in use in engravings of 1886 (Almanack). (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91 & COVER ILLUST.; The Barrow in Furness Almanack and Tide Tables: Barrow in Furness: 1886-: FOLD-OUT ENGRAVINGS).
Listing NGR: SD1900069208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barrow in Furness Almanack and Tide Tables, (1886)
Barnes, F, Barrow and District, (1968), 91
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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