Gate Lodge to Harris Orphanage With Associated Gate Piers and Gates

GATE LODGE TO HARRIS ORPHANAGE WITH ASSOCIATED GATE PIERS AND GATES, GARSTANG ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361629
Date first listed:
15-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Gate Lodge to Harris Orphanage With Associated Gate Piers and Gates
Statutory Address:
GATE LODGE TO HARRIS ORPHANAGE WITH ASSOCIATED GATE PIERS AND GATES, GARSTANG ROAD
Gate Lodge to the Harris Orphanage, with associated Gate piers and gates, on Garstang Road in Fulwood, Preston.
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Date:
2005-04-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361629
Date first listed:
15-Jan-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Gate Lodge to Harris Orphanage With Associated Gate Piers and Gates
Statutory Address 1:
GATE LODGE TO HARRIS ORPHANAGE WITH ASSOCIATED GATE PIERS AND GATES, GARSTANG ROAD

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
GATE LODGE TO HARRIS ORPHANAGE WITH ASSOCIATED GATE PIERS AND GATES, GARSTANG ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Preston (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 53185 32272

Details

SD 53 SW FULWOOD GARSTANG ROAD

7/30 Gate Lodge to Harris Orphanage, with associated Gate piers and gates (formerly listed with "The Harris Children's Home") 15.1.1985 GV II

Lodge and gateway to Harris Orphanage, 1885-88, by Benjamin Sykes of Garlick, Park, and Sykes,for the trustees of E.R. Harris. Accrington red brick with sandstone dressings, Cumberland slate roof. Vernacular Revival style. T-plan, single storey: to drive, a prominent gabled wing with canted bay window and small square flanking windows under oversailing gable of applied black and white studding with pargeted apex displaying a shield lettered A.D.; 1887 in left angle a lean-to porch, to the road another gable decorated like the first; on the ridge near the junction a tall Tudor-style triple chimney stack with moulded cap. Gate piers: 4 inner, making carriage gateway flanked by pedestrian gates, and 2 outer, all red brick heavily-banded with sandstone; square section, c.3 metres high, with hemispherical tops, the innermost bearing ornamental iron lampholders. Iron spear-railing gates.

Listing NGR: SD5318532272

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Legacy System number:
185877
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.

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