Conservatory at west end of park

Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1239155
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1974
Statutory Address:
Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1239155
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1974
Statutory Address 1:
Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

Location

Statutory Address:
Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 67252 28884

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/09/2019

SD 62 NE
5/51

CORPORATION PARK
Conservatory at west end of park

II
Conservatory, 1902 by W Richardson and Co (Darlington). Principal elevation faces south-east. Central rectangular house, gabled, with clock in pediment. Regular-coursed stone plinth, otherwise all glass and iron, richly ornamented with arches, pierced spandrels, columns etc. Central tapering octagonal ventilator with ogee dome and flagpole, above an ogee-arcaded belfry. At right-angles are flanking lower wings with polygonal ends, iron cresting, and flying veranda roofs. Good example of late-Victorian conservatory style.

Listing NGR: SD6725228884

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416904
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Hartwell, C, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Lancashire North, (2009), 124

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