Ship Street Tenement
SHIP STREET TENEMENT, 1-9, SHIP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282850
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ship Street Tenement
- Statutory Address:
- SHIP STREET TENEMENT, 1-9, SHIP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282850
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ship Street Tenement
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIP STREET TENEMENT, 1-9, SHIP 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:
- SHIP STREET TENEMENT, 1-9, SHIP 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 19585 68178
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1968 SHIP STREET, Barrow Island 708-1/13/135 (East side) Nos.1-9 (Consecutive) Ship Street Tenements
GV II
Tenement block. 1881-84. By Paley and Austin of Lancaster (plan). Main contractors Smith and Caird of Dundee (Trescatheric). Red brick with graduated slate roofs. 4 storeys, 2:14:2 bays; near symmetrical; slightly-recessed centre. Alternate paired and single windows; 4/2-pane sashes. Ground floor: chamfered plinth; windows have flush sills and triple-header segmental arches. 1st floor: similar but with projecting sills. Patterned brick band below 2nd floor of centre and 3rd floor of outer bays; 2nd-floor windows interrupt a moulded string course. 3rd floor of centre is treated as an attic storey with hipped-roof dormers within a mansard roof; end bays rise 4 full storeys and have hipped roofs. String course and terracotta corbel table to cast-iron ogee gutters. Projecting lateral stacks to each return; plain ridge stacks on the party walls. Rear (facing Ship Street): 4 full storeys to whole range. 9 staircases with half-landing balconies, iron railings and round arch over. Utility wings with casements in formerly unglazed apertures; hipped roofs. Part of outstanding tenement-block development built to house workers of the Barrow Iron Shipbuilding Co. One of 4 identical blocks set to rear of the sandstone Devonshire Buildings, Michaelson Road (qv); (see also Barque Street, Brig Street, Schooner Street). The site is flanked by more elaborate brick tenements that back onto Sloop Street and Steamer Street (qv). Well-preserved example of a building type rare in England. (Building Plans Register: 1881-: 1435; Trescatheric B: How Barrow was Built: Barrow in Furness: 1985-: 26-27).
Listing NGR: SD1958568178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, How Barrow Was Built, (1985), 26-27
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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