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Latitude: 53.3517 / 53°21'6"N
Longitude: -2.7336 / 2°44'1"W
OS Eastings: 351261
OS Northings: 384117
OS Grid: SJ512841
Mapcode National: GBR 9YBP.Z7
Mapcode Global: WH87Q.Z0FV
Plus Code: 9C5V9728+MG
Entry Name: Gossages Tower
Listing Date: 6 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1130415
English Heritage Legacy ID: 56052
ID on this website: 101130415
Location: West Bank, Halton, Cheshire, WA8
County: Halton
Electoral Ward/Division: Riverside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Widnes
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Widnes St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Tower
SJ 58 SW FORMER BOROUGH OF WIDNES MERSEY ROAD
5/91
Gossages Tower
6.10.83 II
Offices, now Works, built circa 1860 for early chemical manufacturers
Hutchinson & Co. Rendered with slate roof, mainly four storeys with
two storey wing. Classical features include projecting plinth,
rusticated quoins, projecting bands at sill level, curved heads with
keystones and architrave to ground floor windows, flat moulded heads
elsewhere. There is a moulded string course midway up ground floor
windows and a moulded eaves cornice. Sash windows to main buildings,
triple at ground floor. Double two panel bolection moulded entrance
door, with plain fanlight, flanked by flat pilasters. The two storey
section and the interiors are not of interest. This is a dominant
building in the landscape which was formerly known as the Tower
Building.
Listing NGR: SJ5126184117
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