Gate House at Railway Level Crossing

GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, CULVERT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297536
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Gate House at Railway Level Crossing
Statutory Address:
GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, CULVERT LANE
Gate house at the former railway level crossing on Culvert Lane. Built circa 1860 for the Manchester & Southport Railway
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Date:
1999-09-07
Reference:
IOE01/00820/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297536
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Gate House at Railway Level Crossing
Statutory Address 1:
GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, CULVERT LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, CULVERT LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Lathom
National Grid Reference:
SD 48284 11043

Details

NEWBURGH

SD41SE CULVERT LANE 663-1/3/116 (West side) Gate house at railway level crossing

II

Railway level-crossing keeper's cottage, now private dwelling. c.1860. For the Manchester and Southport Railway Company. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roof, stone and brick chimney. L-plan formed by 2-unit main range parallel to road with service wing set back at right-hand end. Elizabethan style, with steeply-pitched roof, apex finials and mullioned windows. Two storeys and 2 windows, symmetrical, with rusticated rock-faced quoins; a gabled single-storey porch in the centre with a Tudor arched doorway and hollow spandrels, coped gable and a double-chamfered single-light window in each side; tall cross-windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor, and mullioned 2-light windows at 1st floor with gablets over them. Chimney at right-hand gable. The left gable wall (to the track) has a mullion-and-transom canted bay window at ground floor and a cross-window above. Set back single-storey service wing at right-hand end. One of a set of similar buildings on this section of the railway line.

Listing NGR: SD4828411043

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
386354
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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