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Latitude: 54.1137 / 54°6'49"N
Longitude: -3.2317 / 3°13'54"W
OS Eastings: 319579
OS Northings: 469346
OS Grid: SD195693
Mapcode National: GBR 5NWW.43
Mapcode Global: WH72H.BVBR
Plus Code: 9C6R4Q79+F8
Entry Name: 127, 129 and 131, Duke Street
Listing Date: 6 May 1976
Last Amended: 20 December 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197854
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388455
ID on this website: 101197854
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA14
County: Cumbria
District: Barrow-in-Furness
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Barrow-in-Furness
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Barrow-in-Furness St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Building
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1969SE DUKE STREET
708-1/12/56 (South West side)
06/05/76 Nos.127, 129 AND 131
(Formerly Listed as:
DUKE STREET
(South West side)
Nos.121-131 (Odd))
GV II
Shops with offices over. c1873. By Paley and Austin (plans).
Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate
roof.
3 storeys and attic; 4 bays with groups of 3:2:2:3 windows to
1st floor. Symmetrical about obtuse-angled corner site facing
Ramsden Square and Abbey Road. Doorway to each end, 1 office
front and 3 shop fronts all set between channel-rusticated,
ashlar pilasters with carved capitals. 1st floor: full-width
balcony with decorative iron balustrade; brick pilasters
between bays. Round-headed plain sashes; central openings of
outer bays have glazed doorways; impost string course to
archivolts with carved keystones.
2nd floor: continuous, moulded sill band to groups of 4:2:2:4
sashes linked by impost string course; semi-octagonal columns
applied to brick mullions; wider brick king mullions to the
outer bays; ashlar panels beneath raised, segmental archivolts
with carved keystones. String course and corbel table beneath
eaves cornice. Pierced parapet with ashlar dies over each bay
division. The parapet broken by square-headed dormers with
brackets to triangular pediments with ball finials; each outer
bay has 2 dormers; bay 3 dormer has smaller pediment raised
over sunken panel. Mansard roof with coped parapet to right
gable and 2 brick ridge stacks, that to left taller and with
decorative panelling.
Plans survive and are dated 1873. Forms part of planned scheme
around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness
town centre.
(Building Plans Register: 1873-: 400).
Listing NGR: SD1957969346
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