The Padiham Heritage Appraisal - Burnley Borough Council

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ninecharacter area 79.1 introduction9.1.1 Character Area 7 lies south west of the town centre and is bordered by Padiham GreenC E School and allotment gardens to the south, the disused railway line to the north, StationRoad to the east, and the River Calder to the west. There is no housing within this smallcharacter area, which is given over predominantly to light industrial and municipal uses.9.1.2 Municipal uses, including gas works and waste disposal facilities, were dominant in thearea until the latter part of the 20th century. Remaining buildings relating to these uses datefrom the late 19th and early 20th century and provide the area’s main interest.9.2 Movement and key routes9.2.1 Park Road runs straight and in a southerly direction through the character area in whichit is the only road. Private development adjoins both sides of the road until it terminates atthe southern boundary of the character area. Public footpaths continue south, west and eastthrough and around allotment gardens. Traffic movement within the area is limited largelyto daytime business access only. Through movement of pedestrians/cyclists accessing thefootpath network may be constrained by a negative perception of the Park Road corridorcreated by poor legibility/signposting and by poor lighting and lack of surveillance after close ofbusiness.9.3 Former municipal buildings9.3.1 The yard and buildings adjacent to the railway on the west side of Park Road are usedas a Burnley Borough Council depot. At the southern end of the yard at right angles to ParkRoad is an attractive two storey former stable block. Constructed of Yorkshire point masonryfeaturing ashlar dressed arched windows (blocked) and small central turret set in a cobbledcourtyard with ornate stone gateposts, this building is considered to be a feature of localheritage value (Plan F). A plain two storey stone built former Padiham UDC office buildingfronts onto Park Road. The offices and stable block were in place by 1910 (see Plan D). Afurther block in engineering brick on the opposite side of the courtyard is of later origin (before1930).Former stable block, Park RoadFormer Padiham UDC office block, Park Road96 heritage appraisal
9.3.2 Padiham’s gas works were originally located just beforethe bridge in Station Road (Area 1) but explosions in 1905 and1906 gave impetus to relocate the works, the new site for which,in Park Road, had been identified as early as the 1887. Remainsof these new gas works, completed in 1910, are located withinthe character area along the east side of Park Road. Along theroadside is a range of single storey buildings in the then fashionableAccrington brick with Yorkshire stone details. These buildings oncehoused office, workshops and meter stores. Their original wroughtiron gates are still in place. The design of the works reflected thecivic pride and confidence of the time and as some of the remainingstructures are considered features of local heritage value (PlanF). The complex was described in Padiham’s Official Guide of1936 as ‘one of the most pleasant and well-laid out works in theNorth of England…enclosing a rectangular piece of ground laid outwith flowers, shrubs, etc., which in summer has quite a charmingeffect…’ (Haines and Jones 1994).9.3.3 In addition to the outer façade wall the base of the higherlevel, which gave access to the railway sidings, also survives. After1910 the gasworks were linked to the railway sidings to the northby narrow gauge tramway which delivered coal to the works andalso handled by-products such as tar. The gas works and subsidiaryservices were taken over by the North West Gas Board in 1949.Production was phased out in the 1960s and the gasholders wereused until c.1980. The latter were located at the southern end ofthe site, part of which is now used as a Household Waste RecyclingCentre (Haines and Jones 1994).Red brick façade and wrought iron entrance gatesof former gasworks site, Park RoadFormer gasholder site now a Household WasteRecycling Centre on Park Road9.3.4 Opposite the Household Waste Recycling Centre the smallsingle storey building with a hipped roof was part of the mortuarywhich was on the site by 1930. Adjacent to this is a former tripeworks now used as a garage. To the south are buildings which onceformed part of Padiham Urban District Council’s household wastedestructor which was built in 1901.9.4 Industrial buildings9.4.1 On Station Road, the former Turkington Engineeringfactory (previously Riley’s Snooker factory) dominates the vicinity. Ahuge building of some 100,000 sq ft on a site of some five acres, itsuffered in one of the biggest fires in the town’s history on October30th 2005 and is currently vacant. Built in 1985 on the former siteof Padiham railway station and goods yard, it has served as aprominent feature in Padiham ever since.View down Park Road with part of former UrbanDistrict Council waste destructor site in foreground.Former mortuary building is just behind parked carin the centre of the photograph.Former Turkington Engineering Factory, Station Roadview.Vacant factory on the former railway station siteviewed from the railway line.heritage appraisal 97
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3.2.9 On Whalley Road Epworth House
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Victoria Mill, Ightenhill Street.3.
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Former Wesley Chapel in West Street
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