298, Abbey Road is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Lodge.
298, Abbey Road
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cornice-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- SD 211 714
- Coordinates
- 54.13264, -3.20799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 298 Abbey Road is a lodge built around 1878 by Alfred Swan for JT Smith, who managed the Barrow Haematite Iron and Steel Company. The building is constructed from snecked, rock-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a green slate roof. It has a compact T-shaped plan with a side wing on the left and a porch at the rear.
On the right side, which faces the drive to Crosslands, there is a chamfered plinth and a two-light mullioned window with casements that have horizontal glazing bars and transom lights, topped with a continuous dripmould. The oversailing eaves are interrupted by a half-dormer that has a shorter two-light window beneath a hipped roof. The main roof is also hipped and adorned with terracotta ridges and finials.
The front facing Abbey Road includes a rectangular bay window beneath a catslide roof projection, while the side wing to the left features a half-dormer with a hipped roof. A truncated stack rises from the roof valley. At the rear, the porch is open-sided with pointed wooden arches and a lean-to roof, and it contains a square-headed door. Drawings for the lodge were approved in 1878, and the plans are preserved in the Building Plans Register.
Local climate
298, Abbey Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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