4, DUKE STREET
4, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209874
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 4, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4, DUKE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/02861/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209874
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 4, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, 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:
- 4, 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:
- SD1996069001
Details
SD1969SE
708-1/12/47
06/05/76
BARROW IN FURNESS
DUKE STREET
(North East side)
No.4
GV
II
Large house now doctors' and dentists' surgeries. c1900. Red
brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3
storeys; 3-bay entrance front to Duke Street, angled
corner-bay on left and 2-bay left return having 2-storey,
2-bay wing on its left. Asymmetrical.
Mostly mullioned and transomed windows with plain sashes set
behind the transoms. Entrance front: moulded plinth; bay 2
projects and bay 3 breaks forward further, both are gabled.
Bay-2 porch has moulded, quoined doorway with 3 round-arched
transom lights under basket arch with hoodmould and carved
stops; small round-arched window to right and ashlar offsets
over. Ovolo-moulded, 3-light stair-window above has 2
transoms, stained glass and arched lights beneath segmental
arch with keystone and hoodmould. Bay 1 has segmentally-arched
sash with hoodmould to ground and 1st floors. Bay 3 has
2-storey, cavetto-moulded, canted bay-window of 1:2:1 lights
with transoms; cornice with fleurons beneath parapet with
blind, pointed arches.
2nd floor: bay 1 is blind; bay 2 with cross-window having
arched lights and hoodmould under relieving arch; bay 3 with
transomed 3-light window having hoodmould with carved stops
and finial. Moulded eaves cornice over bay 1. Corner bay:
large, curved oriel window with ashlar corbelling, sunken
apron panels and cornice surmounted by pierced parapet;
cross-window above. Gables to corner bay, bay 2 and bay 3 have
shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar gable copings and finials;
gables of bays 2 & 3 also have slits.
Hipped roof with terracotta ridges and finials. Single-flue
stack to ridge on left; multiple-flue stacks to left-return
ridge and right end; the stacks have panelled shafts. Left
return is plainer; small gable above 2 cross-windows set
between ashlar shafts.
INTERIOR: lobby doors with coloured, leaded glass. Stair hall:
small corner fireplace with canopy; embossed dado depicting
pot plants; staircase has fluted and panelled newels with
finials; stained, square rods to oak handrail. 3 ground-floor
doorways with architraves and brattished cornices, 2 have
9-panel doors and pointed recesses over. 2 pointed arches on
landing; panelled ceiling with moulded ribs. Staircase to 2nd
floor has slender, turned balusters. Not shown on 1895 OS map
but likely to have been built soon after.
Listing NGR: SD1996069001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388446
- 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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