THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL

THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL, 148, TRAFALGAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247304
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1991
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL
Statutory Address:: THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL, 148, TRAFALGAR STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247304
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1991
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL, 148, TRAFALGAR STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE FORMER BILLIARDS HALL, 148, TRAFALGAR STREET

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 83231 32658

Details

BURNLEY

SD8332NW TRAFALGAR STREET 906-1/14/147 (South West side) 02/04/91 No.148 The former Billiards Hall

II

Formerly known as: No.146 The Former Billiards Hall TRAFALGAR STREET. Former billiards hall, standing empty at time of inspection (November 1990). 1910. Designed by Samuel Keighley; built for Willie Holt of Accrington Road, Burnley, billiard table manufacturer. Millstone grit ashlar; stone slab roof. Rectangular on plan;. 2 storeys with billiard room over. 5 bays to principal (Trafalgar Street) elevation. Deeply overhanging eaves on paired shaped brackets. 1st floor: each bay with 3 slit windows, those to the right taller to light stairs; leaded panes. Ground: paired windows with renewed casements under a bold cornice (which returns to right) broken by large and unusual consoles over pilasters that mark the bays. Entrance at corner to right, canted and rusticated to ground only, flanked by single-light windows. Cranmer Street end elevation: gable with coping and kneelers, the gable wall with apex ventilator and 3 plat bands; single light windows to both floors. Rear: fenestration similar to front (windows boarded), all plainly treated. Brick stack to rear roof slope. INTERIOR not inspected. A distinctive design by a little-known local architect, and a good and early example of a specialised games hall.

Listing NGR: SD8323132658

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Legacy System number:: 467235
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.