Duke of Edinburgh Hotel
DUKE OF EDINBURGH HOTEL, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197912
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Duke of Edinburgh Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- DUKE OF EDINBURGH HOTEL, ABBEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-05-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/02860/24
- Rights:
- © Mr CJ Wright. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197912
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Duke of Edinburgh Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUKE OF EDINBURGH HOTEL, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- DUKE OF EDINBURGH HOTEL, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- SD1997969697
Details
708-1/5/18
SD16NE
06/05/76
BARROW IN FURNESS
ABBEY ROAD
(South East side)
Duke of Edinburgh Hotel
GV
II
Hotel now public house. c1875. Red brick with ashlar sandstone
dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; on
corner site with 8 bays to Abbey Road, corner oriel and
shorter left return to Rawlinson Street. Gothic Revival style.
Chamfered plinth; moulded string course beneath ground-floor
sill band. Two quoined doorways to Abbey Road have
colonnettes, Gothic-panelled doors, overlights with
intersecting glazing bars and moulded arches with hoodmoulds.
Triple-, double- and single-light windows in irregular rhythm:
colonnette mullions, sashes under pointed arches and linked
hoodmoulds. Angled corner bay has single-light windows
flanking granite shaft supporting the oriel.
1st floor: ornate brackets to full-width balcony with
cast-iron balustrade having foliate panels and posts with
finials; hotel name in bold letters. Windows in rhythm
1:2:1:2:2:1:2:1 have sashes in recessed ashlar surrounds under
brick pointed arches; continuous hoodmoulds and blue-brick
relieving arches. The 2-light windows have colonnette mullions
and quatrefoils in ashlar panels over.
2nd floor: sill and lintel bands link recessed, square-headed
sashes in same rhythm; pilaster mullions. Corner oriel:
corbelling with ball-flowers under semi-octagon with 3
trefoil-headed sashes under linked triangular hoodmoulds; 2nd
floor sashes have lintels with roundels under trefoils; carved
cornice now topped by brick parapet. Main eaves has compound
brick corbelling; hipped roof with 7 dormers to Abbey Road
having casements under oversailing verges on arch braces.
Plain brick stacks to ridge and left return slope.
Left return: pointed doorway flanked by 3-light and 2-light
windows; all windows and 2 roof dormers as front. 2 unequal,
gabled additions on left are set lower.
INTERIOR: stair hall is half-panelled in mahogany; impressive
staircase rising through 3 floors in open well under coved
ceiling with lantern: turned balusters linked by pierced
panels under moulded handrail; bold newel posts.
Listing NGR: SD1997969697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388387
- 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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