Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW MANOR ROAD 708-1/4/90 (North side) 06/05/76 West Gate Cottage (Formerly Listed as: MANOR ROAD Nos.1 AND 2 West Gate Cottages)

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Pair of cottages now 1 dwelling. Dated 1873. By Paley and Austin. For the Furness Railway Co. (plans). Red sandstone with ashlar dressings, tiled roof. L-shaped plan: 2-storey crosswing on right of 1-storey, 2-window sidewing with porch in angle; 1-storey wing to rear of sidewing. Chamfered plinth, large quoins. Casements with glazing bars in mullioned openings with shouldered lights. Sidewing on left: buttress between 3-light and 2-light windows; open-sided timber porch under catslide has turned balusters and pointed arches, doorway into crosswing has roll-moulded, pointed arch. Crosswing: two 2-light windows beneath continuous dripmould; 3-light window and slit in coped gable. Both wings have decorative ridge cresting and ashlar ridge stacks with offsets; lateral stack on right return of crosswing. Left return of side wing has altered pointed arch on left of 2-light window beneath plaque which reads '1873/ WEST GATE COTTAGES'. Surviving plans are dated 1872. (Building Plans Register: 1872-: NO.329).

Listing NGR: SD2165471625

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)