Conservative Club
CONSERVATIVE CLUB, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283009
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, ABBEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-05-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/02861/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283009
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, ABBEY 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.
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:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, ABBEY ROAD
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 19673 69419
Details
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SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/12/16 (South East side) 06/05/76 Conservative Club (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Conservative Club including entrance to Queen's Hall)
GV II
Club. 1879-99. By JY McIntosh (plans). Ashlar sandstone facade, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3:3:3 bays. Asymmetrical with pedimented centre and side wings treated differently; Classical details. Moulded plinth; panelled pedestals to fluted Corinthian pilasters at principal divisions; continuous moulded sill bands and fluted 1st floor string course. Main entrance to centre bay has panelled double door and gilded fanlight beneath archivolt with console keystone and carved spandrels; leaded side-lights flanked by pilasters with carved brackets to cornice surmounted by balustraded balcony. Mullioned, 2-light windows to each side have cornices. Bays 1-3 has recessed double doors under round arch within pedimented aedicule; Venetian window to each side. Bays 7-9 have single doorway beneath keyed oculus on left of two 12-pane sashes in architraves. 1st floor: balcony doors and overlight with glazing bars in pedimented aedicule on raised panel; 12-pane sashes to each side have apron panels and segmental arches with keystones within shouldered architraves; windows of bays 7-9 the same. Bay 1-3: blind pilastrade with central, keyed oculus in scrolled panel under arched cornice. Entablature has plain frieze and dentilled cornice; the central pediment modillioned and with keyed oculus in tympanum. Coped ashlar parapet to hipped roof with corniced stack to right of centre and another to right end; truncated ventilator over left wing. Right return: 2 bays in ashlar; 1-storey, 4-bay brick wing on right. INTERIOR: extensively remodelled; former Queen's Hall in left wing now a billiard room with dance-hall over. Foundation stone (on front right pilaster pedestal) laid by Sir Charles Cayzer 17.8.1897; building opened 21.9.1898. Plans survive and are dated 1897, they show a different facade treatment. (Building Plans Register: 1897-: 3678 ALSO BDB/20).
Listing NGR: SD1967369419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388385
- 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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