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Listed buildings in Ulverston

Ulverston is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It contains 149 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, five are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the market town of Ulverston and the surrounding countryside. A high proportion of the listed buildings are in or near the town centre, and most of these are shops and houses with associated structures. In the parish is the Ulverston Canal, and there are three listed buildings associated with this. The other listed buildings include churches, public houses, banks, hotels, civic buildings, an animal pound, memorials, railway stations, and a former drill hall.

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|A row of three pebbledashed houses with a slate roof, they have three storeys, and each house has one bay. The windows of No.&nbsp;10A are casements, and in the other houses they are sashes. The doorways of Nos.&nbsp;8 and 10 are paired, and both houses have cellar openings. |align="center" | |- |17 King Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A shop with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a slate roof, three storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a shop front with a central doorway. In the upper floors are sash windows, those in the middle floor with architraves and cornices. |align="center" | |- |19 King Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A shop with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a slate roof, three storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a shop front with a timber fascia and cornice, and a pilaster on the right. In the upper floors are sash windows with moulded surrounds. |align="center" | |- |20 King Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |Originally a shop, later a restaurant, the building contains earlier material. It is rendered and has a slate roof, three storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a shop front with a central doorway, panelled pilasters, and a fascia. The middle floor contains a wide bow window, and in the top floor are two sash windows with an inscribed plaque between. |align="center" | |- |25 King Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A shop with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a slate roof, three storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a late 20th-century shop front, and in the upper floors are sash windows with plain surrounds and protruding sills. |align="center" | |- |1 Market Place<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A shop with living accommodation above incorporating earlier material. It is stuccoed with a slate roof, and the gable end faces Market Place. The shop has two storeys and an attic, and in the ground floor is a shop front with two engaged Doric columns, a cornice and a fascia. In the upper floor are two sash windows, and in the attic is a round-headed sash window. |align="center" | |- |3 Market Place<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A rendered shop with a slate roof, and the gable end facing Market Place. It has two storeys, an attic, and two bays. In the ground floor is a timber shop front with a recessed doorway to the right. The upper floor contains windows that are either casements or fixed. |align="center" | |- |10 Market Place<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A shop with living accommodation above, on a corner site, containing material from earlier periods. It is rendered with a slate roof, and has two storeys with attics. There are two bays with a gable facing King Street, and one bay facing Market Place. There are shop fronts on both faces, with a doorway on a canted corner between them, and above these is a continuous inscribed entablature. Over the doorway is a curved signboard, and in the upper floors are sash windows. The attic window in the gable has a round head with Gothic glazing. |align="center" | |- |1 and 1A Market Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A pair of rendered shops with a slate roof, two storeys and three bays. In the upper floor are sash windows, and to the left is a small window. In the ground floor are shop fronts flanking a central doorway. |align="center" | |- |3 Market Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center" |A shop with accommodation above, a slate roof, three storeys and one bays. In the ground floor is a 20th-century shop front, and above are sash windows. |align="center" | |- |51 Market Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A house and a shop on a corner site, the ground floor stuccoed and the upper floors roughcast, it has a slate roof and three storeys. There are three bays on the Market Street face and one bay on the Union Street face. The windows are sashes. In the middle bay on Market Street is a doorway that has a surround with sunken panels and a cornice on brackets. In the left bay, and on the front facing Union Street, are shop windows each with a timber fascia and a cornice on pilasters. Angled on the corner is a recessed doorway. |align="center" | |- |12 and 14 Prince's Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A mirrored pair of semi-detached houses in limestone, on a plinth, with a sill band and a slate roof. They have two storeys with attics, and each house has two bays. In the outer bays are canted bay windows, in the upper floors are sash windows with architraves, and in the roof are gabled dormers. The paired doors are in the centre, and have Doric pilasters. |align="center" | |- |5 Queen Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A shop with accommodation above, rendered with a slate roof, it has four storeys and two bays. The ground floor contains a timber shop front with a cornice and a recessed doorway. The windows are casements, those in the middle two floors with segmental heads. |align="center" | |- |9 Queen Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A shop with accommodation above, rendered with a slate roof, it has four storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a shop front with a doorway at the left, and in the upper floors are sash windows, one rising to form a gabled dormer. |align="center" | |- |15 Queen Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A shop with accommodation above, rendered, with three storeys and two bays. In the ground floor to the left is a yard entrance with a rusticated surround, and to the right is a round-headed doorway between shop windows. The windows in the upper floors are casements, those in the middle floor having architraves. |align="center" | |- |82 Soutergate<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |The house is in roughcast stone with a slate roof, two storeys, and a symmetrical front of three bays. There is a fanlight above the door, and the windows are replacements. |align="center" | |- |Bridge House<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A roughcast house with an artificial slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and a two-bay front. The windows are sashes, and in the roof above a fascia board are two gabled dormers. The central doorway has a chamfered surround, and above it is a cornice on brackets. In the left return is a stair window. |align="center" | |- |Gothic screen wall,<br/>11 and 13 Daltongate<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |The wall at the rear of the gardens is in limestone and is in Gothic style. It contains chamfered pointed blind openings, a blind doorway over which is a cornice and a blocking course, niches, an embattled parapet, and a corner turret. |align="center" | |- |Hoppers Public House<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |Originally a water-powered corn mill, later converted into a public house. It is stone with a slate roof, and has an east front of three storeys ad three bays, and a south front of two storeys and two bays. The windows in the east front are casements, those in the lower two floors having segmental heads. In the centre of the ground floor is a doorway, and in the top floor is a loading door and a steel crane beam. |align="center" | |- |King's Head Public House<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |The public house contains some 18th-century material, and is rendered with a slate roof. The main part has two storeys and three bays. In the left bay is a cart entrance, to the right is a doorway with a segmental head approached by two steps, and flanked by two casement windows. In the upper floor are sash windows. To the right is a three-storey bay with a casement window in each floor. |align="center" | |- |Queen's Hotel<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |Originally a hotel, later a restaurant, it is on a corner site. The building is stuccoed, on a plinth, with chamfered quoins, a band above the ground floor, and a hipped slate roof. There are three storeys with attics, each front has three bays, and the windows are sashes. The entrance front is symmetrical, and the central doorway has a quoined surround and a cornice on brackets. The flanking ground floor windows have quoined surrounds, and the window above the doorway has an architrave with a cornice on brackets. In the attic are three dormers with casement windows and segmental heads. |align="center" | |- |Former goods station, store and house<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1855 |The original railway station, store and house, built for the Furness Railway, later a goods station, and then converted and used for other purposes. It is in polychrome sandstone, with a chamfered plinth, quoins, bands, and a cornice. The train shed has a corrugated iron roof, and the other roofs are hipped and slated. The train shed has a coped gable and a large segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs and a moulded impost band. This is flanked by round-arched doorways with rusticated voussoirs. The former house, set back to the right, has two storeys, three bays, casement windows imitating sashes, and lintels over the door and windows. |align="center" | |- |Former drill hall and associated structures<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |The buildings consist of an administrative block at the front, a sergeant's house to the south, and a drill hall with a rifle range in the basement to the west. They have since been used for other purposes. The buildings are in limestone with red sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The administrative block has two storeys and three bays, and the house to the left has two storeys and two bays. They are on a plinth, and have a sill band. In the centre of the administrative block is an arched entrance, and the windows are mullioned, those in the ground floor with arched heads. The drill hall has five bays and a roof with a wide span, and there is a tall boundary wall with stone coping. |align="center" | |- |Former National Westminster Bank<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |Originally built as a bank with attached manager's house, later a bank and offices, it is in limestone with slate roofs. Both parts have three storeys, the former house has four bays, the left bay recessed, and with a pediment above the other three bays, and the bank has three bays. Most of the windows in both parts are sashes. In the centre of the bank is a recessed porch flanked by Tuscan columns and pilasters, and with a modillioned cornice. The windows in the middle floor have pediments, and in the middle floor of the former house they have cornices. |align="center" | |- |9 Market Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |A shop with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a slate roof, three storeys and one bay. In the ground floor is a shop front with a timber cornice and carved brackets. The middle floor contains a sash window, and in the top floor is a window with a central pivot. |align="center" | |- |Stone Cross Mansion<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1874 |A large house, later used for other purposes, it is in limestone with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The building is in Scottish baronial style and has an irregular plan around a central rectangular block. There is a central five-stage tower with a bowed oriel window, machicolations, gargoyles, and bracketed-out balconies. In the entrance front is a porch with a gablet, a pierced parapet, and columns with clustered shafts. |align="center" | |- |Rioja<br/>Former HSBC Bank<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |Built for the Cumberland Union Bank, it is in sandstone ashlar on a limestone plinth and has a slate roof. There are three storeys and an asymmetrical front with one window to the left of the doorway and two to the right. The windows in the ground floor are fixed, and above they are sashes in architraves. The doorway is flanked by pilasters, and above it is a complex carved panel. |align="center" | |- |Ulverston railway station<br/>including nightclub<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1878 |The railway was built for the Furness Railway and was designed by Paley and Austin in Italianate style, and part of it has since been used as a nightclub. The station is in sandstone on a limestone plinth. At the northeast corner is a two-storey block with a four-storey clock tower, and to the west is a single-storey wing ending in a gabled cross-wing. A screen wall extends to the east and ends in a two-storey tower, now disused. There are glazed canopies over all the platforms. |align="center" | |- |34 Market Street and<br/>2 Brogden Street<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1879 |A shop on a corner site with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a band between the upper storeys, rusticated corner pilaster strips, and a slate roof. There are three storeys, three bays on Market Street and two on Brogden Street. The windows are sashes with architraves, and in the gable end facing Brogden Street is a small attic window with a sill on a bracket and a date. In the ground floor is a shop front, the entrance in Brogden Street having pilasters, a dentilled cornice and a pediment. To the left is a two-storey two-bay extension containing warehouse doors, and beyond that is a one-bay shop with a gable. |align="center" | |- |Rolling bridge and accumulator tower<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1883 |The rolling bridge was built by the Furness Railway to carry a railway line over the Ulverston Canal, and was designed so that it could be moved to allow the passage of ships on the canal. It is in iron and steel and is no longer in use. Nearby is an accumulator tower, in brick with sandstone dressings with a slate roof. It has a square plan, two storeys and two doorways. |align="center" | |- |Wilson's Monument<br/><small></small> | |align="center"| |The monument is in Ulverston Cemetery, and commemorates Thomas Watkins Wilson. It is in marble, and consists of a replica lighthouse, surrounded by rocks and waves. On the top is a glass lantern with an openwork drum and a ball-and-spike finial. On the base are inscriptions. |align="center" | |- |Barclays Bank<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1901–02 |Built for the Bank of Liverpool on a corner site, it is in red sandstone on a limestone plinth, with a slate roof. It has an irregular plan, with two storeys, and is in Jacobean style. On the corner is a canted bay window that rises to an octagonal turret with a copper dome. To its right is a doorway with a segmental shell pediment on granite columns. The windows are mullioned and transomed. Other features include shaped gables with ball finials, a band of carved foliage, and another doorway with a shell pediment. |align="center" | |- |War memorial<br/><small></small> | |align="center"|1921 |The war memorial, designed by W. G. Collingwood, stands in Market Place. It is in sandstone and consists of a stepped base with thin diagonal buttresses and crocketed gables, a column of clustered shafts with a foliated capital, and a cross head. On the sides of the base are inscribed bronze plaques. |align="center" | |-

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