Description

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SD41SE DEANS LANE 663-1/3/49 (West side) Gate house at railway level crossing

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Railway level-crossing keeper's cottage, now private dwelling. c.1860. For the Manchester and Southport Railway Company. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate roof, stone and brick chimneys. L-plan formed by 2-unit main range parallel to road with service wing set-back at right-hand end. Elizabethan style, with steeply-pitched roof and mullioned windows. Two storeys and 2 windows, symmetrical, with rusticated rock-faced quoins; a gabled single-storey porch in the centre with a Tudor-arched doorway and hollow spandrels, coped gable and a double-chamfered single-light window in each side; tall cross-windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor, and mullioned 2-light windows at 1st floor with gablets over them. Chimney at right-hand gable. The left gable wall (to the track) has a mullion-and-transom canted bay window at ground floor and a cross-window above. At the right-hand end the set-back single-storey wing has a Tudor-arched doorway (now protected by a C20 glazed porch). One of set of similar buildings on this section of the railway line.

Listing NGR: SD4743611349

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)