6-26, SCHOOL STREET
6-26, SCHOOL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282849
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 6-26, SCHOOL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6-26, SCHOOL STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282849
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 6-26, SCHOOL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6-26, SCHOOL STREET
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:
- 6-26, SCHOOL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 20307 68880
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD2068NW SCHOOL STREET 708-1/14/131 (North East side) 06/05/76 Nos.6-26 (Even)
II
Terrace of 11 houses. c1880. Red brick, slate and composition tile roofs. 3 storeys with 2-storey wings to rear, 22 windows to 1st floor. 5 reflected pairs and single house at right end. Yellow brick bands across ground floor, sill bands to upper floors. Paired doorways with tall overlights and segmental arches flanked by double sashes with projecting sills and segmental arches (No.22 has altered ground-floor openings). 1st-floor windows with moulded lintels and brick dripmoulds; the windows above the doors are coupled. Lettered panel beneath 2nd-floor sill band reads 'BARROW HOSPITAL SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS'. 2nd-floor windows similar but the central couples each set in a corbelled projection with hipped roof and finial (No.10 is the only house to retain 4-pane sashes on both upper floors). No.6, at right end, has door to left and paired windows to the upper floors but has no corbelled projection. Whole range has corbel table at eaves (cast-iron ogee guttering to Nos 14 & 16 only); brick stacks on the party walls, that between Nos 18 & 20 with original decorative top; right end of roof is hipped. Built as nurses home to serve North Lonsdale Hospital, Lonsdale Street (qv).
Listing NGR: SD2030768880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388591
- 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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