Ulverston Ulverston is a market town and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. In the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census to ...

is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the South Lakeland District of

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. C ...

, England. It contains 149

listed buildings In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

that are recorded in the

National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a ...

. 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 A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

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 An animal pound is a place where stray livestock were impounded. Animals were kept in a dedicated enclosure, until claimed by their owners, or sold to cover the costs of impounding. Etymology The terms "pinfold" and "pound" are Saxon in origi ...

, memorials, railway stations, and a former

drill hall A drill hall is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practise and perform military drills. Description In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, the term was used for the whole headquarters building of a military reserve unit, ...

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, A row of three

pebbledashed Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the wo ...

houses with a slate roof, they have three storeys, and each house has one bay. The windows of No. 10A are casements, and in the other houses they are

sashes Sashes Island is an island in the River Thames in England at Cookham Lock near Cookham, Berkshire. It is now open farmland, but has Roman and Anglo-Saxon connections. The island is located between Hedsor Water and the present navigation cha ...

. The doorways of Nos. 8 and 10 are paired, and both houses have cellar openings. , align="center" , , - , 17 King Street
, , 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
, , 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 In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wal ...

on the right. In the upper floors are sash windows with moulded surrounds. , align="center" , , - , 20 King Street
, , 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

s, and a fascia. The middle floor contains a wide

bow window A bow window or compass window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more w ...

, and in the top floor are two sash windows with an inscribed plaque between. , align="center" , , - , 25 King Street
, , 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
, , align="center", , A shop with living accommodation above incorporating earlier material. It is stuccoed with a slate roof, and the

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

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
, , align="center", , A rendered shop with a slate roof, and the

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
, , 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

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 Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

glazing. , align="center" , , - , 1 and 1A Market Street
, , 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
, , 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
, , align="center", , A house and a shop on a corner site, the ground floor stuccoed and the upper floors

roughcast Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the ...

, 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

. 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

s. Angled on the corner is a recessed doorway. , align="center" , , - , 12 and 14 Prince's Street
, , align="center", , A mirrored pair of semi-detached houses in

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

, on a

plinth A pedestal (from French ''piédestal'', Italian ''piedistallo'' 'foot of a stall') or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In ...

, 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 window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. Types Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they are curved or angular, or ...

s, in the upper floors are sash windows with architraves, and in the roof are

d dormers. The paired doors are in the centre, and have Doric

s. , align="center" , , - , 5 Queen Street
, , 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
, , 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

d dormer. , align="center" , , - , 15 Queen Street
, , 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
, , align="center", , The house is in

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
, , align="center", , A

house with an artificial slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and a two- bay front. The windows are

, and in the roof above a fascia board are two

d 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,
11 and 13 Daltongate
, , align="center", , The wall at the rear of the gardens is in

and is in

style. It contains chamfered pointed blind openings, a blind doorway over which is a cornice and a blocking course, niches, an embattled

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/breast'). ...

, and a corner turret. , align="center" , , - , Hoppers Public House
, , 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
, , 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
, , align="center", , Originally a hotel, later a restaurant, it is on a corner site. The building is stuccoed, on a

, with chamfered

quoins Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

, a

band Band or BAND may refer to: Places *Bánd, a village in Hungary *Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania *Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, I ...

above the ground floor, and a hipped slate roof. There are three storeys with attics, each front has three bays, and the windows are

. 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
, , align="center", 1855 , The original railway station, store and house, built for the

Furness Railway The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England. History Formation In the early 1840s, the owners of iron ore mines in the Furness district of Lancashire became interested i ...

, later a goods station, and then converted and used for other purposes. It is in polychrome

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...

, with a chamfered

, 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

and a large segmental arch with rusticated

voussoir A voussoir () is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, which is used in building an arch or vault. Although each unit in an arch or vault is a voussoir, two units are of distinct functional importance: the keystone and the springer. The ...

s 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

, and

lintels A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. In the case of ...

over the door and windows. , align="center" , , - , Former drill hall and associated structures
, , align="center", , The buildings consist of an administrative block at the front, a sergeant's house to the south, and a

with a rifle range in the basement to the west. They have since been used for other purposes. The buildings are in

with red

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

, and have a sill band. In the centre of the administrative block is an arched entrance, and the windows are

mullion A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid supp ...

ed, 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 Coping refers to conscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions. Coping strategies can be cognitions or behaviours and can be individual or social. Theories of coping Hundreds of coping strategies have been proposed in an attempt to ...

. , align="center" , , - , Former National Westminster Bank
, , align="center", , Originally built as a bank with attached manager's house, later a bank and offices, it is in

with slate roofs. Both parts have three storeys, the former house has four bays, the left bay recessed, and with a

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedim ...

above the other three bays, and the bank has three bays. Most of the windows in both parts are

. In the centre of the bank is a recessed porch flanked by Tuscan columns and

s, 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
, , 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
, , align="center", 1874 , A large house, later used for other purposes, it is in

with

dressings and slate roofs. The building is in

Scottish baronial Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Reminiscent of Scot ...

style and has an irregular plan around a central rectangular block. There is a central five-stage tower with a bowed oriel window, machicolations,

gargoyle In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle () is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from running down masonry walls ...

s, and bracketed-out balconies. In the entrance front is a porch with a

t, a pierced

, and columns with clustered shafts. , align="center" , , - , Rioja
Former HSBC Bank
, , align="center", , Built for the Cumberland Union Bank, it is in

ashlar on a

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

in architraves. The doorway is flanked by

s, and above it is a complex carved panel. , align="center" , , - ,

Ulverston railway station Ulverston is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-east of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the market town of Ulverston in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. Hi ...

including nightclub
, Ulverston railway station

, align="center", 1878 , The railway was built for the

and was designed by

Paley and Austin Sharpe, Paley and Austin are the surnames of architects who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1835 and 1946, working either alone or in partnership. The full names of the principals in their practice, which went under vario ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

style, and part of it has since been used as a nightclub. The station is in

on a

. 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

d 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
2 Brogden Street
, 34 Market Street - panoramio

, align="center", 1879 , A shop on a corner site with living accommodation above, it is rendered with a

between the upper storeys, rusticated corner

strips, and a slate roof. There are three storeys, three bays on Market Street and two on Brogden Street. The windows are

with architraves, and in the

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

dentil A dentil (from Lat. ''dens'', a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice. Dentils are found in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, and also in later styles such as Neoclassical, Federal, Georgian R ...

led cornice and a

. 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
, Moving Bridge - panoramio

, align="center", 1883 , The rolling bridge was built by the

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

dressings with a slate roof. It has a square plan, two storeys and two doorways. , align="center" , , - , Wilson's Monument
, , align="center", , The monument is in Ulverston Cemetery, and commemorates Thomas Watkins Wilson. It is in

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...

, 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
, , align="center", 1901–02 , Built for the

Bank of Liverpool The Bank of Liverpool was a financial institution founded in 1831 in Liverpool, England. In 1918, it acquired Martins Bank, and the name of the merged bank became the Bank of Liverpool and Martins Ltd. The name was shortened to Martins Bank Ltd ...

on a corner site, it is in red

on a

, with a slate roof. It has an irregular plan, with two storeys, and is in Jacobean style. On the corner is a canted

that rises to an octagonal turret with a copper dome. To its right is a doorway with a segmental shell

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

columns. The windows are

ed and transomed. Other features include shaped

s with ball finials, a band of carved foliage, and another doorway with a shell pediment. , align="center" , , - , War memorial
, , align="center", 1921 , The war memorial, designed by W. G. Collingwood, stands in Market Place. It is in

and consists of a stepped base with thin diagonal

buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral ( ...

es and

crocket A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture. The name derives from the diminutive of the French ''croc'', meaning "hook", due to the resemblance of crockets to a bishop's crosier. Description ...

s, 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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