The Lord Ramsden Public House

THE LORD RAMSDEN PUBLIC HOUSE, 121 AND 122, DUKE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209901
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
List Entry Name:
The Lord Ramsden Public House
Statutory Address:
THE LORD RAMSDEN PUBLIC HOUSE, 121 AND 122, DUKE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209901
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
The Lord Ramsden Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE LORD RAMSDEN PUBLIC HOUSE, 121 AND 122, DUKE STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE LORD RAMSDEN PUBLIC HOUSE, 121 AND 122, 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 19614 69343

Details

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SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/54 (South West side) 06/05/76 Nos.121 AND 123 The Lord Ramsden Public House (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.121-131 (Odd))

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Public house with offices over. c1873. By Paley and Austin (plans). Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; 4 bays with groups of 3:2:2:3 windows to 1st floor. Symmetrical about obtuse-angled corner site facing Duke Street and Ramsden Square. 4-panel doors to each end and segmentally-arched public-house windows set between channel-rusticated, ashlar pilasters with carved capitals. 1st floor: full-width balcony with decorative iron balustrade; brick pilasters between bays. Round-headed plain sashes; central openings of outer bays have glazed doorways; impost string course to archivolts with carved keystones. 2nd floor: continuous moulded sill band to groups of 4:2:2:4 sashes linked by impost string course; semi-octagonal columns applied to brick mullions; wider, brick king mullions to the outer bays; ashlar panels beneath raised, segmental archivolts with carved keystones. String course and corbel table beneath eaves cornice. Pierced parapet with ashlar dies over each bay division. The parapet broken by square-headed dormers with cornices on brackets and hipped roofs; each outer bay has 2 dormers. Mansard roof with coped parapets to left gable and centre; brick stacks to left end and centre. Plans survive and are dated 1873. Forms part of planned scheme around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: 400).

Listing NGR: SD1961469343

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Legacy System number:
388453
Legacy System:
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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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