Pair Of Former Tram Shelters And Attached Railings Enclosing Centre Of Square is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Tram shelter. 1 related planning application.
Pair Of Former Tram Shelters And Attached Railings Enclosing Centre Of Square
- WRENN ID
- tangled-mortar-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tram shelter
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 62 SE DARWEN BELGRAVE SQUARE
4/3 Pair of former tram shelters and attached railings enclosing - centre of square
GV II
Matching pair of tram shelters and public lavatories, dated 1902, now closed. Ashlar with domed copper-clad roofs. South shelter regular octagonal, north shelter octagonal but elongated to rear. Single storey, in free baroque style; moulded stringcourse at impost level, moulded cornice, balustraded parapet. The angles have square piers at the lower level and stumpy Ionic colonnettes above, the cornice breaking out over these in exaggerated form and carrying scrolled consoles to short pillars with prominent caps and ball finials, between which run balustrades with ramped ends. The 3 sides to the street all have large round-headed openings, that on the inner side a door, others windows, all crossed by the string course above which the heads, as lunettes, have Gibbs surrounds and decorated extrados. On south side wall of south shelter is an attached bronze plaque lettered in relief.
Iron railings to north, west and south sides of square appear contemporary and have knobbed bars with stone piers with moulded cornices at intervals.
Listing NGR: SD6923122134
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