Dykelands

DYKELANDS, LIGHTBURN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270248
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:
Dykelands
Statutory Address:
DYKELANDS, LIGHTBURN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270248
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:
Dykelands
Statutory Address 1:
DYKELANDS, LIGHTBURN ROAD

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DYKELANDS, LIGHTBURN 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 27688 77697

Details

ULVERSTON

SD27NE LIGHTBURN ROAD 626-1/1/53 (South side (off)) Dykelands

II

House. Probably 1834 by George Webster. Roughcast with limestone dressings and slate roof. Built in a cottage ornee style with Gothick detailing. 2 storeys and 4 bays. Facade has overhanging eaves carried on timber brackets with pendant bosses, and gables with pierced and carved barge-boards. The windows are timber casements with leaded glazing, pointed heads to the lights, and transoms to those on the ground floor. The 1st and 2nd bays have square bay windows of 3 lights, the left-hand one with a hipped slate roof with a pierced timber valance with pendants, and the right-hand one with a cornice with brattishing. The left-hand window on the 1st floor has an opening with trefoiled head below a gable. Above the 3rd bay there is also a gable and the 1st-floor window is of 3 stepped lights. The open gabled timber porch, also in the 3rd bay, is carried on 4 columns forming a screen of a central Tudor arch flanked by pointed arches. The barge-boards are plain. The chimneys, on the gables and between the 1st and 2nd bays, have caps with clustered octagonal shafts. INTERIOR: the ground floor has panelled window reveals, doors of raised and fielded panels, and a staircase which has a closed string, slim turned balusters, and an octagonal newel. Above a doorway under the stairs, leading to the rear wing, is a glazed Gothic screen. The fireplace surrounds were renewed in the mid C20.

Listing NGR: SD2768877697

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
459938
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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