Works Entrance Lode And Gateway At Vickers Ship And Engineering Limited Kings Gate Including National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1993. Works entrance lodge and gateway.
Works Entrance Lode And Gateway At Vickers Ship And Engineering Limited Kings Gate Including National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- ghost-facade-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1993
- Type
- Works entrance lodge and gateway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1968 MICHAELSON ROAD, Barrow Island 708-1/13/94 (East side) Works entrance lodge & gateway at VSEL Kings Gate inc National Westminster Bank
GV II
Works entrance lodge and gateway, now partly occupied by bank. c1913. For Vickers Ltd. Snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 6x6 bays; double depth; lean-to gatehouse and double gates attached on right. Plinth; doorways to bays 1 & 4 with 9-panel doors, stone transoms and overlights; sill band, lintel band and continuous dripmould to rectangular windows with later casements. 1st floor: sill band and rock-faced lintels to windows as ground floor. Cornice surmounted by balustrade in 3 sections; balustrade cornice returns as end-gable copings. Terracotta ridge tiles with 2 octagonal ridge vents having ogee cupolas; corniced stack to rear of ridge (now heightened in brick). Adjoining on right is the workers' entrance with double-chamfered surround having large keyblock and balustrade over. Iron gates to right have close bars beneath twin mid-rails, scrollwork and arched rails above; spear finials and scrolled stiles. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SD1974568612
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