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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Gasworks
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 55 NE FARLAM KIRKHOUSE NY 56 SE
2/36, 6/36 Former Gasworks
II
Former colliery gasworks. Dated 1883 for Messrs Thompson, lessee of the Earl of Carlisle's collieries. Calciferous hammer-dressed sandstone, with rusticated quoins and dressings; corrugated asbestos roof and Welsh slate, with coped gables and kneelers. Small single-storey building with short square tapering chimney; adjoining 2-storey tower with pyramidal roof has projecting single- storey 2-bay extension. End entrance has been enlarged (c1920 when building was converted to colliery foundry) with iron girder and C20 brick, date stone above and shaped gable. Unglazed side window. Tower to right has plank door and similar unglazed opening. Extension has plank doors. Gasworks had no external cylinder and supplied gas for colliery works nearby. Externally complete, but no internal fitments. Derelict at time of resurvey.
Listing NGR: NY5642960001
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