British Waterways Burnley Operations Base
BRITISH WATERWAYS BURNLEY OPERATIONS BASE, FINSLEY GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244802
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- British Waterways Burnley Operations Base
- Statutory Address:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BURNLEY OPERATIONS BASE, FINSLEY GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244802
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- British Waterways Burnley Operations Base
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BURNLEY OPERATIONS BASE, FINSLEY GATE
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:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BURNLEY OPERATIONS BASE, FINSLEY GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84255 31930
Details
BURNLEY
SD83SW FINSLEY GATE 906-1/3/55 (South side) 29/09/77 British Waterways Burnley Operations Base (Formerly Listed as: FINSLEY GATE Carpenter's Shop (British Waterways Board))
GV II
Canal boatyard warehouse, now workshop and offices. Early to mid C19; altered and enlarged. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with c1900 brick addition to right now linking it to a contemporary ancillary building which forms a west wing. 2 storeys and 3 bays (2:1:2 windows), symmetrical; with a full-height segmental-headed wagon doorway in the centre, with rock-faced surround and voussoirs, altered so as to make a similarly-shaped ground-floor doorway, the upper portion filled by a wooden and glazed screen with a doorway and a cast-iron balcony on wooden brackets; four 36-pane fixed windows at ground floor and four 25-pane fixed windows at 1st floor, all with chisel-dressed raised sills and lintels; and gable copings with kneelers, plus a chimney at the right-hand gable. Brick addition to right; and stone gabled wing to right of this. Rear has 1:2 windows at 1st floor with a loft doorway between, the former window to the left of this altered as a 2nd doorway, and the original external stone steps enlarged to make a double flight; two 25-pane windows to the right at ground floor (former windows to left blocked), and three 16-pane windows above. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: associated with former boatyard at Finsley Gate wharf. Forms group with former forge to left (qv) and with Finsley House beyond (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8425531930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467053
- 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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