Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET
708-1/12/53 (South West side)
06/05/76 Nos.111-119 (Odd)

GV II

Various commercial premises and offices. c1870. Red brick with
ashlar sandstone dressings, slate roofs. 2 storeys and attic;
6 broad bays to Duke Street, angled corner bay to left and 4
bay left return to Parade Street.
Upper floors have plain sashes throughout. Nos 111-115:
probably early C20 shop fronts, that to No.115 has pilasters
and 8-panel door on right of 3 arched lights with ventilators
in the spandrels; pilasters also flank the other, plainer shop
windows under continuous fascia and cornice; No.111 has corner
doorway with tall overlight. 1st floor: sill band and impost
string course to windows of 3 round-headed lights beneath
scalloped ashlar arches with hoodmoulds; single window to the
corner bay; nosed string course and corbel table to cast-iron
gutter carried across facade as a cornice. Attic storey:
paired half-dormers with pilasters and shells under corbelled,
round-arched hoods; string course beneath ashlar gutter to
mansard roof.
Nos 117 & 119: altered ground floors; upper floor of No.117 as
Nos 111-115; upper floors of No.119 have same details but with
two 2-light windows to 1st floor and 3 dormers to the attic.
Roof is hipped over left corner and has brick stacks to front
slope over the party walls (the 2 stacks on right are
truncated).
Left return: shop front continues for 1 bay; to left of this
is a door flanked by windows all with rubbed-brick, segmental
windows arches with hood-moulds. 1st floor: bays 3 & 4 have
2-light windows as front; single-light window to bay 1 and
narrow 2-light window to bay 2 have rubbed-brick arches.
Single dormers as front.

Listing NGR: SD1964369312

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580447

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