Oakdene

OAKDENE, 5 AND 5A, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283029
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Oakdene
Statutory Address:
OAKDENE, 5 AND 5A, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283029
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Oakdene
Statutory Address 1:
OAKDENE, 5 AND 5A, MARKET PLACE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
OAKDENE, 5 AND 5A, MARKET PLACE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Dalton Town with Newton
National Grid Reference:
SD 22648 73938

Details

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 MARKET PLACE, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/172 (South side) 06/05/76 Nos.5 AND 5A Oakdene (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE, Dalton Nos.4, 5 AND 5A Oakdene (4))

GV II

House and cottage formerly The Ship Hotel. Dated 'T.E. 1683', altered. Pebble-dashed, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 2:1 windows to 1st floor; wing to rear of No.5A on right. No.5 (on left): part-glazed door with overlight flanked, on each floor, by C20 casements. Square-headed opening on right above which is the datestone having horseshoe carved above the date. No.5A, beyond, has door and single window to each floor as rest. End stacks and party walls ridge stack. INTERIORS: few exposed features. Former wall cupboard in No.5 (now made into corner cupboard and therefore not included in item) is of oak in 2 panels with 'TSE 1603' carved on upper panel. In pantry to rear of No.5A is a reused fragment of medieval masonry with foliated cross. Shown as The Ship Hotel and with C19 fenestration in an early C20 photograph (Walton). (Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: PL 20).

Listing NGR: SD2264873938

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
388501
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Walton, J E, Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1983), 20

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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