Ulverston Railway Station Including Nightclub Premises

ULVERSTON RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING NIGHTCLUB PREMISES, SPRINGFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270170
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
Ulverston Railway Station Including Nightclub Premises
Statutory Address:
ULVERSTON RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING NIGHTCLUB PREMISES, SPRINGFIELD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270170
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:
Ulverston Railway Station Including Nightclub Premises
Statutory Address 1:
ULVERSTON RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING NIGHTCLUB PREMISES, SPRINGFIELD 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ULVERSTON RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING NIGHTCLUB PREMISES, SPRINGFIELD ROAD

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ulverston
National Grid Reference:
SD 28460 77868

Details

ULVERSTON

SD27NE SPRINGFIELD ROAD 626-1/1/135 (West side (off)) 24/06/74 Ulverston Railway Station, including nightclub premises (Formerly Listed as: Passenger buildings & glass roofs to the platforms at Ulverston Railway Station)

II

Railway station, now station and nightclub. Rebuilt 1873 by Paley and Austin for the Furness Railway. Squared coursed red sandstone with yellow sandstone dressings, and a limestone plinth and ground-floor sill band. Slate roofs. Italianate style. A 2-storey block of square plan has a 4-stage clock tower at its north-east corner. A single storey range extends towards the west parallel with the platform and terminates with a gabled cross-wing. To the east a screen wall extends parallel with the platform and terminates with a disused 2-storey tower. The 2-storey block has 3 bays facing south. Its windows are of of 2 round-headed lights separated by engaged columns. Those on the 1st floor are set under a flat head and have a sill band. Those on the ground floor are set within round arches, with a central roundel above the lights and with an impost band. The eaves are bracketed and the central flat of the hipped roof is surrounded by crested iron railings. The tower has a parapet pierced with roundels, and an urn at each corner. The single-storey range to the west has windows of 2 flat-headed lights separated by a Tuscan pilaster, under a round arch. To the right of a central doorway there are 3 windows, and to the left 2 windows flanking a second narrower doorway. A monopitched glazed canopy extends across the full width of this range. The cross-wing to the left has an oculus below its gable. On the north side the central part of the platform is covered by a glazed canopy carried on cast-iron columns with decorated brackets. A similar canopy covers the island platform to the north. Towards the west end of the station buildings a C20 glass-walled extension to the nightclub extends onto the platform.

Listing NGR: SD2846077868

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
460039
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.

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