Description

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SK0394
921-1/10/1

GLOSSOP
ARUNDEL STREET (west side)
Glossop Gas Works

(Formerly listed as Wain, previously listed as: ARUNDEL STREET (West side) Glossop Gas Works Offices)

27/01/78

II
Glossop Gas Company offices, now commercial premises. 1845, converted C20. Rock-faced coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings, vermiculated quoins and Welsh slate roof.

EXTERIOR:two storeys. Street front has symmetrical five window range. Central doorway with stone pilasters and pediment, metal door with rectangular overlight, flanked by two tall roundheaded windows with vermiculated keystones and C20 windows with horizontal glazing bars. Above five similar windows. Ashlar band between floors inscribed:- 'GLOSSOP GAS WORKS ESTABLISHED AD 1845'. Moulded cornice and cast-iron rainwater goods. Left and right returns topped with pediments, each with two similar round headed windows to each floor with plain keystones.

Rear elevation has symmetrical five window range. Slightly off-centre round headed doorway with pilaster surround and boarded fanlight, to right small round headed window. Either side two round headed windows with keystones and C20 windows with horizontal glazing bars and boarded fanlights. Above tall central round headed window with margin light glazing flanked by two round headed windows similar to those below.

INTERIOR: has wooden staircase with turned balusters to entrance hall and panelled doors to ground floor.

Listing NGR: SK0316594130

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Glossop Gas Works at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26664048

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]