Sale Room
SALE ROOM, FOUNTAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375000
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Sale Room
- Statutory Address:
- SALE ROOM, FOUNTAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375000
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Sale Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALE ROOM, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SALE ROOM, TARN SIDE
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:
- SALE ROOM, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SALE ROOM, TARN SIDE
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:
- SD 28807 78440
Details
ULVERSTON
SD2878 FOUNTAIN STREET 626-1/3/33 (North side) Sale Room
GV II
Former Catholic church, later used as Oddfellows Hall and now a sale room. 1823, tower added 1832. Roughcast rubble with slate roof. Built against the east gable wall of No.31 Fountain Street (qv), with a tower at the north end, with a 5-bay side wall bordering Tarn Side and with an embattled parapet which has crocketed pinnacles which appear to be of cast-iron. The windows are pointed with hoodmoulds and have timber casements with Y-tracery. At the south end there are 2 bays, the right-hand one canted at an angle and the left-hand one with a doorway below the window. Above the doorway is a lintel with a hoodmould and with an inscription: 'ODDFELLOWS HALL'. The tower is of 3 stages, and has pointed window openings which are mainly blind, and an embattled parapet. The upper stage has paired blind openings. INTERIOR has timber and plaster ribbed vault, a gallery at the north end with a front of raised and fielded panels, the upper ones with trefoiled heads. The west wall is painted with a roll of honour commemorating Oddfellows who gave their lives in the First World War. (Rimmer, Revd JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 7).
Listing NGR: SD2880778440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, Reverend J S, The Story of Ulverston, (1925), 7
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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