Search House and Clocking on Shed at Sedgwick Powder Works
SEARCH HOUSE AND CLOCKING ON SHED AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS, LA8 8AD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244935
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Search House and Clocking on Shed at Sedgwick Powder Works
- Statutory Address:
- SEARCH HOUSE AND CLOCKING ON SHED AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS, LA8 8AD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244935
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Search House and Clocking on Shed at Sedgwick Powder Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEARCH HOUSE AND CLOCKING ON SHED AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS, LA8 8AD
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:
- SEARCH HOUSE AND CLOCKING ON SHED AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS, LA8 8AD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helsington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 50862 87546
Details
SD 58 NW,
63/4/10003
HELSINGTON,
Search House and Clocking on Shed at Sedgwick Powder Works
GV
II
Search house and clocking-on shed. Mid C19, with minor late C20 alterations. Random rubble limestone and vertical boarding beneath a single-hipped roof with a Westmorland slate roof covering. South end wall, which forms part of site boundary and helps define the main entrance, has a level flat-coped top with small blocked openings. West side doorway with boarded door and blocked window. North and east walls are blind. Listed for group value with the adjacent gate house and office (item 4/10002).
The Sedgwick Powder works is the most complete of the gunpowder manufacturing sites in Cumbria, an important location for the industry. The hazardous nature of the process led to the development of highly-dispersed sites, with workshops and drying areas sited in isolated positions, often with blast banks between them. Non-manufacturing buildings however, such as the search house and gate house could be grouped together, as in this instance. The survival of so complete a set of buildings as are found on this site is extremely uncommon.
Listing NGR: SD5086287546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472819
- 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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