Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27NW DUDDON ROAD, Askam In Furness
708-1/1/145 (North side)
31/01/89 Ticket office and waiting room at
Askam in Furness Railway Station

GV II

Station buildings (ticket office, waiting room and lavatories)
on west side of railway track. 1877. By Paley and Austin. For
Furness Railway. Rock-faced and ashlar red sandstone with
graduated slate roofs. Ticket office stands at right-angles to
the long low waiting room, ancillary rooms and lavatories
which form the principal range running N/S parallel to the
railway. Ticket office: 1 storey and attic, 3 windows to
platform side. Chamfered plinth, tall segmentally-arched
windows, impost band and string course over: 6-pane casements,
clock to central window. Round-arched gable window under
deeply overhanging verges with pendent finial, external end
stack to rear has offsets and cornice. Platform range:
catslide roof forms pentice on 10 shaped angle brackets to
cover a rank of windows with glazing bars (some boarded up),
sliding door to waiting room and 3 other doorways; 2 corniced
ridge stacks. North end of range ends with an elaborate
gentlemen's lavatory, the roof hipped but broken by a tier of
louvres and supported by shaped brackets. Rear: high plinth; 3
pairs and 2 triplets of windows as to ticket office. INTERIOR:
waiting room has blue and red floor tiling; 5-bay, king-post,
collar-rafter roof. Overall an imaginative, varied and careful
design by an important architectural partnership. Forms a
group with the other station buildings (qv).

Listing NGR: SD2148577699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504910

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