Numbers 1-9 Devonshire Buildings, Island Road Mission and the Devonshire Public House
1-9 DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS, MICHAELSON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218436
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9 Devonshire Buildings, Island Road Mission and the Devonshire Public House
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9 DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS, MICHAELSON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218436
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9 Devonshire Buildings, Island Road Mission and the Devonshire Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-9 DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS, MICHAELSON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ISLAND ROAD MISSION, MICHAELSON ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE DEVONSHIRE PUBLIC HOUSE, MICHAELSON ROAD
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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.
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:
- 1-9 DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS, MICHAELSON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ISLAND ROAD MISSION, MICHAELSON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE DEVONSHIRE PUBLIC HOUSE, MICHAELSON 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:
- SD 19556 68196
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1968 MICHAELSON ROAD, Barrow Island
708-1/13/91 (East side)
06/05/76 Nos.1-9 (Consec) Devonshire
Buildings, Island Road Mission & The
Devonshire PH
GV II*
Tenement block including mission and public house. 1872-74. By
Paley and Austin of Lancaster (plans); main contractors Smith
and Caird of Dundee (Trescatheric). Sawn, ashlar red
sandstone, graduated slate roof with brick stacks.
3 storeys and attic, 3:15:5:15:4 bays with 4-storey corner
tower on left and angled corner bay on far right; the end
pavilions and centre are taller; recessed 15-bay sections in
repeated rhythm 2:1:2 divided by buttressed party walls. Near
symmetrical composition. Rock-faced plinth rises to chamfered
sill band; sill bands to upper floors; 4-pane sashes. End
pavilions and centre have 2-light mullioned windows:
shouldered lights and relieving arches to ground floor;
square-headed lights with round-arched hoodmoulds to 1st
floor; round-arched lights with coupled hoodmoulds to 2nd
floor. String course and terracotta corbel table to eaves of
mansard roof with hipped-roof dormers.
Within the 15-bay sections, all 2nd-floor windows have
shouldered lights; the single bays project, have 2-light
mullioned windows and rise as full dormers with
shouldered-light windows under relieving arches, hoodmoulds
and coped gables. Eaves, dormers and roof as centre.
The buttresses rise to coped, party-wall parapets;
multiple-flue brick ridge stacks. Corner tower on left is
octagonal and has door to Michaelson Road with round arch and
triangular hoodmould; round-arched windows to upper floors;
short spire with lucarnes and finial. Flanking the base of the
tower are broad, segmentally-arched shop openings with
hoodmoulds (now Island Road Mission).
Right pavilion (The Devonshire PH) has been cement-rendered;
its corner bay corbelled out at each floor and terminating in
hipped-roof garret. Rear: pavilions have angled staircase
recesses with wrought-iron railings to landings set on corbels
or segmental arches; round arches at top under hipped-roof
canopies on large brackets; centre staircase similar but with
canted balconies; roof dormers as front.
The 15-bay sections rise 4 full storeys, their staircases as
centre but set lower, the canopy brackets have curved braces.
The first block of tenements to be built on Barrow Island but
predated in Barrow-in-Furness by the Scotch Flats at Hindpool
(c1871; now demolished). Plans include a front elevation dated
January 1872; on drawings of September 1874 for the adjacent
Devonshire Buildings (Nos 10-14, qv) it states that the
details are '... same as the buildings now in course of
completion'.
Use of the Scottish tenement system in Barrow can be explained
by the easier access by sea at this time resulting in an
influx of Scottish labour to work for the Barrow Iron
Shipbuilding Co under their 1st manager Mr Robert Duncan of
Glasgow; certainly Barrow attracted its various workforces
from wherever skills existed but opportunity lacked. The tower
complements that of Devonshire Buildings (Nos 10-14); the 2
ranges form an extremely impressive, rare and early complex of
superior industrial housing and bear testimony to the
versatility of this important architectural partnership.
6 later blocks of tenements are set to rear: see under Barque
Street, Brig Street, Schooner Street, Ship Street, Sloop
Street and Steamer Street (qv).
(Building Plans Register: 1872-1874: 595 AND 750; Trescatheric
B: How Barrow was Built: Barrow in Furness: 1985-: 26-27).
Listing NGR: SD1955668196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, How Barrow Was Built, (1985), 26-27
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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