Former Gasworks is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. A Victorian Gasworks.
Former Gasworks
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-lead-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Gasworks
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Former Gasworks, Farlam, Carlisle
- OS grid reference
- NY 564 600
- Coordinates
- 54.93278, -2.68152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former gasworks, built in 1883 for Messrs Thompson, lessee of the Earl of Carlisle's collieries, is a small single-storey structure made of calciferous hammer-dressed sandstone, featuring rusticated quoins and dressings. The building has a corrugated asbestos roof and Welsh slate with coped gables and kneelers. It includes a short square tapering chimney and is adjoined by a two-storey tower topped with a pyramidal roof, which has a projecting single-storey, two-bay extension. The end entrance has been enlarged around 1920 when the building was converted to a colliery foundry, featuring an iron girder and 20th-century brick, with a date stone above and a shaped gable. There is an unglazed side window, while the tower to the right has a plank door and a similar unglazed opening. The extension also has plank doors. The gasworks did not have an external cylinder and supplied gas for the nearby colliery works. The exterior is complete, but there are no internal fitments, and the building was derelict at the time of resurvey.
Local climate
Former Gasworks sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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