Ticket Office and Waiting Room at Askam in Furness Railway Station
TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION, DUDDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ticket Office and Waiting Room at Askam in Furness Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION, DUDDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ticket Office and Waiting Room at Askam in Furness Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION, DUDDON ROAD
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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:
- TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION, DUDDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Askam and Ireleth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 21485 77699
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27NW DUDDON ROAD, Askam In Furness 708-1/1/145 (North side) 31/01/89 Ticket office and waiting room at Askam in Furness Railway Station
GV II
Station buildings (ticket office, waiting room and lavatories) on west side of railway track. 1877. By Paley and Austin. For Furness Railway. Rock-faced and ashlar red sandstone with graduated slate roofs. Ticket office stands at right-angles to the long low waiting room, ancillary rooms and lavatories which form the principal range running N/S parallel to the railway. Ticket office: 1 storey and attic, 3 windows to platform side. Chamfered plinth, tall segmentally-arched windows, impost band and string course over: 6-pane casements, clock to central window. Round-arched gable window under deeply overhanging verges with pendent finial, external end stack to rear has offsets and cornice. Platform range: catslide roof forms pentice on 10 shaped angle brackets to cover a rank of windows with glazing bars (some boarded up), sliding door to waiting room and 3 other doorways; 2 corniced ridge stacks. North end of range ends with an elaborate gentlemen's lavatory, the roof hipped but broken by a tier of louvres and supported by shaped brackets. Rear: high plinth; 3 pairs and 2 triplets of windows as to ticket office. INTERIOR: waiting room has blue and red floor tiling; 5-bay, king-post, collar-rafter roof. Overall an imaginative, varied and careful design by an important architectural partnership. Forms a group with the other station buildings (qv).
Listing NGR: SD2148577699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388444
- 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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