Burlington House
Burlington House, Duke Street, Barrow in Furness
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197855
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Burlington House
- Statutory Address:
- Burlington House, Duke Street, Barrow in Furness
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197855
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Burlington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Burlington House, Duke Street, Barrow in Furness
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Burlington House, Duke Street, Barrow in Furness
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD1990868982
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 12 February 2024 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD1968
708-1/13/58
BARROW IN FURNESS
DUKE STREET (south west side)
Burlington House
(Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) County Court, and former Post Office)
06/05/76
GV
II
Post office now offices (entered from Burlington Street). c1890 and early C20. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roofs. Two storeys, 2:3:2 bays; symmetrical elevation about corner site. Early C20 addition facing Michaelson Road has ten windows to first floor.
Corner range: plinth; curved centre between taller end pavilions. Left end: door with moulded surround and two-pane overlight on left of ovolo-moulded cross-window; cornices; continuous first floor sill band to two similar cross-windows; frieze of moulded terracotta tiles at eaves. Right end similar but without the doorway. Centre has a pair of recessed, round-arched windows to each bay; impost string curse and linked hoodmoulds. Over each pair is a square-headed window in corbelled panel rising as a gabled dormer with gablet kneelers, ashlar copings and ball finials; small four-pane sashes flank the centre window. String course beneath moulded eaves.
End pavilions have hipped roofs with lead finials; end stack on left has gablets on offsets, string course and cornice. Early C20 addition: infilled segmental archway on left has double keystone which breaks a modillioned cornice; similar arch to far right has three (original?) windows beneath. In recess between the arches are four large windows then a fifth window flanked by doorways with ashlar surrounds and lintels marked 'STAFF ENTRANCE' and 'POST OFFICE'; continuous first floor sill band to cross windows, alternate windows within the central recess are treated as the c1890 dormers.
(Not to be confused with the Burlington Arms/Hotel building, opened 1887)
Listing NGR: SD1990868982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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