Description

LATHOM

SD41SE DEANS LANE
663-1/3/49 (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
chimneys. 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 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. At the right-hand end the set-back
single-storey wing has a Tudor-arched doorway (now protected
by a C20 glazed porch). One of set of similar buildings on
this section of the railway line.

Listing NGR: SD4743611349

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585116

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)