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| Watch Tower, Roa Island | ||
| Watch Tower | ||
| Street:- | Tower Street | |
| locality:- | Roa Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | custom house (ex) | |
| locality type:- | watchtower (ex) | |
| locality type:- | tower | |
| locality type:- | lifeboat station (once) | |
| coordinates:- | SD23196487 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2364 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD26 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 CAF92.jpg (taken 4.4.2014)  CAF95.jpg (taken 4.4.2014) |
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| Built about 1847; it was a lookout for HM Customs and Excise, for vessels in Piel
Channel etc. Its original tower was damaged by a bomb during World War II, and has
been taken down. |
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| At one time the building was a lifeboat station. |
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 CAF93.jpg Coat of arms over the gateway. (taken 4.4.2014)  CAF94.jpg Chevron pebblework. (taken 4.4.2014)  BPP89.jpg Chevron pebblework. (taken 16.8.2008)  CAF96.jpg Sandstone quoins. (taken 4.4.2014)  BPP87.jpg (taken 16.8.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28 1) placename:- Watch Tower |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Watch Tower |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WATCH TOWER / / TOWER STREET / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388622 / SD2318564864" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Customs house now workshop. 1849 (previous list description). Pebbles laid in chevrons, red sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof. Central archway with 2-storey, 1-bay boathouse wing on left and small square tower on right. Quoins, chamfered plinth. Archway: 2-centred, double-chamfered and with keystone; 2 patterned shields below corbel table supporting 3 merlons. Boathouse set forward on left has doorway with deeply-chamfered, quoined surround and square-sectioned hoodmould; above is a 2-light chamfered, mullioned window having latticed iron casements. Stair turret on left with slit windows. Shield beneath corbel table to incomplete embattlements; corner turret to right. Tower on right of arch has lancet window and door in left return. Rear: blocked pointed arch to boathouse; 2-light window over as front." |
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