GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING

GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, DEANS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297545
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING
Statutory Address:: GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, DEANS LANE

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Date:: 1999-08-28
Reference:: IOE01/01268/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297545
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING
Statutory Address 1:: GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, DEANS LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATE HOUSE AT RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING, DEANS 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 47436 11349

Details

LATHOM

SD41SE DEANS LANE 663-1/3/49 (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 chimneys. 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 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. At the right-hand end the set-back single-storey wing has a Tudor-arched doorway (now protected by a C20 glazed porch). One of set of similar buildings on this section of the railway line.

Listing NGR: SD4743611349

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Legacy System number:: 386287
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.