Description

NEWBURGH

SD41SE CULVERT LANE
663-1/3/116 (West side)
Gate house at railway level crossing

II

Railway level-crossing keeper's cottage, now private dwelling.
c.1860. For the Manchester and Southport Railway Company.
Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roof, stone and brick chimney.
L-plan formed by 2-unit main range parallel to road with
service wing set back at right-hand end. Elizabethan style,
with steeply-pitched roof, apex finials and mullioned windows.
Two storeys and 2 windows, symmetrical, with rusticated
rock-faced quoins; a gabled single-storey porch in the centre
with a Tudor arched doorway and hollow spandrels, coped gable
and a double-chamfered single-light window in each side; tall
cross-windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor, and mullioned
2-light windows at 1st floor with gablets over them. Chimney
at right-hand gable. The left gable wall (to the track) has a
mullion-and-transom canted bay window at ground floor and a
cross-window above. Set back single-storey service wing at
right-hand end. One of a set of similar buildings on this
section of the railway line.

Listing NGR: SD4828411043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585108

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)