Ramsden Hall
RAMSDEN HALL, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292603
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Ramsden Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAMSDEN HALL, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292603
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ramsden Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAMSDEN HALL, 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:
- RAMSDEN HALL, 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 19688 69496
Details
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SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/12/24 (North West side) 06/05/76 Ramsden Hall (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Old Baths)
GV II
Baths now disused. 1872. Patron James Ramsden. Brindled brick, graduated slate roofs. 1-storey aisles enveloping taller centre with clerestorey; chimney to rear left corner. 3x3 bays; symmetrical. Entrance breaks forward and has double doors with narrow panels beneath moulded segmental arch with ram's-head keystone; frieze above inscribed 'PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BY JAMES RAMDSEN ESQ. FIRST MAYOR'; cornice to swept roof with flat top. Set back to each side are 3 small windows with projecting sills and moulded, segmental arches with keystones; dentilled parapet to flat roof. Behind these rise small gables each with oculus and moulded ashlar copings. Taller centre (set between the ridges of the gables) has sunken panel to each side of tripartite casement beneath moulded brick arch and broken segmental pediment with carving; hipped roof. Right return: doorway on right has integral lantern in overlight; 3 recessed panels each with 3 short windows having linked sills and cambered arches. Lean-to roof (continued from front gable) beneath 9 clerestorey windows having casements with glazing bars; opening lights to windows 2, 5 and 8 have scrollwork beneath segmental cornices on shaped brackets. Left return: round, tapered chimney rises from aisle roof. INTERIOR: bathing facilities removed. 3-bay arcades with wooden posts and arch braces. Front end has moulded imposts to broad arch and pointed side arches; ribbons in relief over. Other end originally the same but now altered. Queen-post trusses. Converted to a public hall in 1886, later became annexe to College of Further Education.
Listing NGR: SD1968869496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388393
- 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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