298, ABBEY ROAD
298, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197909
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 298, ABBEY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 298, ABBEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197909
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 298, ABBEY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 298, ABBEY 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:
- 298, ABBEY 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 21166 71428
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27SW ABBEY ROAD 708-1/4/9 (South East side) 06/05/76 No.298 (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Lodge to Crosslands)
II
Lodge. c1878. By Alfred Swan. For JT Smith (plans). Snecked, rock-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings; green slate roof. 1-storey and attic; compact T-shaped plan with side wing on left and porch to rear. Right return (facing drive to Crosslands, Rating Lane, qv): chamfered plinth; 2-light mullioned window having casements with horizontal glazing bars and transom lights; continuous dripmould. Oversailing eaves broken by half-dormer with shorter 2-light window beneath hipped roof; main roof also hipped and with terracotta ridges and finials. Abbey Road front: rectangular bay window under catslide roof projection; side wing to left has half dormer with hipped roof; truncated stack rises from roof valley. Rear: porch is open-sided with pointed wooden arches and lean-to roof; square-headed door within. JT Smith managed the Barrow Haematite Iron and Steel Company. Drawings survive; approved 1878. (Building Plans Register: 1878-: NO.1259).
Listing NGR: SD2116671428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388378
- 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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