Hotel Majestic
HOTEL MAJESTIC, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197857
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Hotel Majestic
- Statutory Address:
- HOTEL MAJESTIC, DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197857
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Hotel Majestic
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOTEL MAJESTIC, DUKE STREET
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:
- HOTEL MAJESTIC, DUKE STREET
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:
- SD 19882 69024
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/61 (South West side) 06/05/76 Hotel Majestic (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Majestic Hotel)
GV II
Hotel. Dated 'HT 1904', altered. By JY McIntosh. For Henry Tyson (plan). Red brick with red ashlar sandstone to ground floor and to dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys with attic, 2:3:3:2 bays; bays 1 and 2 flat the rest set on curve, outer bays broader. Chamfered plinth, channel-rusticated ground floor; principal bay divisions have 3-storey pilasters. Ground floor: ashlar doorcase to bay 3 (now a window) has archivolt and Jacobean panels above the cornice; simpler doorcase to bay 9 with panelled double doors and segmental pediment raised on 3 short pilasters; a 3rd doorway to bay 1 (also now a window) has dentilled cornice and pedimented niche over. Moulded limestone sills linked by band; later casements in bolection-moulded architraves with pulvinated friezes and segmental pediments; canopied entrance formed through bay-2 windows. Cornice forms sills to 1st-floor windows and from it rise 2-storey pilasters between the central bays. Unequally-hung sashes with lintels and cornices; outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows in corniced architraves. Sunken apron panels to shorter, 2nd-floor windows; outer windows with pilaster mullions. Principal-pilaster capitals carved with volutes and Edwardian masks; date to centre. 2nd-floor cornice breaks forward over all pilasters and from it, over each end, rise stylised Flemish gables each with large scrolled supports, windows on 2 levels and 2 pilasters supporting a segmental pediment. Ashlar balustrade to centre; behind are 6 gabled roof dormers and a central brick stack with panelled sides; matching ridge stack behind left gable. Various plans submitted for this building from 1901-1903. Dormers shown as round-headed in early C20 photograph. (Building Plans Register: 1903-: 4716; Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL 106).
Listing NGR: SD1988269024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388460
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1982), 106
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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