Church Walk House and Attached Wall and Railings
CHURCH WALK HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 2, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374976
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church Walk House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH WALK HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 2, CHURCH WALK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374976
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church Walk House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH WALK HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 2, CHURCH WALK
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:
- CHURCH WALK HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 2, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD2864878476
Details
ULVERSTON
SD2878
626-1/3/9
20/06/72
CHURCH WALK
(South side)
No.2
Church Walk House and attached wall
and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH LAKELAND
CHURCH WALK
No.2)
GV
II
House. Said to be built in 1838. Pebbledashed with painted
ashlar dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan.
A symmetrical composition of 2 storeys plus attic above a
basement and 3 bays, with chamfered quoins and a moulded
cornice gutter. The windows are glazing bar sashes with
architraves. The attic is lit by a central lunette window
within a gable which is treated as an open pediment. The
Tuscan pilaster doorcase is of stone and has an open pediment.
The door is of 6 panels, the upper ones raised and fielded and
the lower ones with reeded borders. The fanlight has
intersecting glazing bars. The doorway is approached by 4
stone steps with nosings. To left and right a low stone wall
carries iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials. Gable
chimneys. The right-hand return wall includes a Venetian stair
window.
INTERIOR: the left-hand front room contains a built-in
mahogany cupboard with Gothick glazing, and a grey marble
fireplace surround with reeded pilasters. The doors to the
front rooms have panels with borders formed by applied
mouldings. The rear stair hall contains a stair with closed
string, slim turned balusters, and a turned pine newel. The
Venetian window has fluted pilasters as mullions, and a
dentilled cornice.
HISTORICAL NOTE: said to be built as the residence of the
workhouse governor.
Listing NGR: SD2864878476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459894
- 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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