Abbey Vale
ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208939
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Vale
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208939
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Aug-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Vale
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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:
- ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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 21863 71986
Details
708-1/4/1
BARROW IN FURNESS,
ABBEY APPROACH (East,off),
ABBEY VALE
(Formerly listed as:
ABBEY APPROACH
ABBEY DALE)
06-MAY-76
II
Porter's Lodge, now house, 1873.
DESCRIPTION:
Dwelling by Paley and Austin for the Furness Railway Company at Furness Abbey Station. It is irregular in plan, built of snecked red sandstone, and with a renewed tile roof. It is a single storey building; with a semi-octagonal centre with side wings and C20 addition to rear. The open-sided wooden porch is under a catslide roof on the west side of the lodge and encloses doorway with date and initials on a decorated lintel. The semi-octagon is lit by cross windows with leaded lights in moulded ashlar surrounds; with a string course over. The hipped roof has oversailing eaves with 3-flue ashlar stack on shared base. The lower side wing to the west has a battered embankment wall and a gabled half-dormer over 3-light mullioned window on left return. There is a lean-to on right return. Embankment wing wall links to the adjoining gateway and bridge over Mill Beck. A plaque reads 'PORTERS LODGE'.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
Abbey Vale is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architects: Paley and Austin are a renowned partnership, with many listed buildings to their names, with many listed at the higher grade.
* Architectural Interest: The Lodge is well designed, with attractive architectural details.
* Group Value: The former Porter's Lodge is part of a multi-period site containing the ruins of Furness Abbey, as well as several other listed buildings, some of which were also associated with the railway.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388369
- 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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