FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES

FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218867
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES
Statutory Address:: FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218867
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES, STATION ROAD

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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:: FORMER LOCAL BOARD OFFICES, STATION ROAD

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District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dalton Town with Newton
National Grid Reference:: SD 23025 73963

Details

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2373 STATION ROAD, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/209 (North East side) 06/05/76 Former Local Board Offices (Formerly Listed as: STATION ROAD, Dalton Council Offices)

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Local board offices now community rooms and council office. Dated 1884. By JY McIntosh. For Dalton Local Board (engraving). Snecked limestone rubble with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 1:1:3 bays; bay 1 taller and roofed as a crosswing. Bay 2 is slightly recessed, ashlar faced and has main entrance: panelled double doors with sidelights and 3-pane overlight in moulded ashlar surround under frieze carved with swags and scales of Justice; dentilled cornice. Large casement over, the lintel with 'DALTON LOCAL BOARD/ anno don. 1884' in raised lettering; miniature Flemish gable with niche. Bay 3-5: tripartite windows with stone mullions and sashes with glazing bars; vehicle entrance to bay 5 (now office) has basket arch with raised keystone. Mid-floor cornice on corbel table; 3 gables with blank shields, ashlar copings and ball finials. Bay 1 projects and has 3 sashes with glazing bars beneath stepped string course; large, council-chamber window of 3 lights with stone mullions, transom, moulded surround and iron casements with glazing bars under cornice. Gable has plaque with crown; end dies with ball finials; sections of pierced balustrade link to moulded copings with obelisk finial. Corniced stack rises from parapet on left return. Square clock tower with iron balustrade, louvres beneath the clock faces and leaded ogee roof with weathervane. Main roof has 2 corniced ridge stacks and end stack on right. INTERIOR: lobby screen with floral stained glass; patterned, tiled floor. Staircase with cast-iron balustrade, carved wooden newel and mahogany handrail; stained-glass stair window; coved ceiling. Council chamber (Jubilee Hall): panelled dado, limestone fireplace with incised Tudor-arched lintel, tiling includes 4 pictorial insets; marble plaque above has details of Dalton Board. 4 arch-braced trusses, under-drawn at collar. Contemporary fireplaces in other rooms. Originally intended as a market hall and illustrated with arcaded ground floor in Dalton News, 4.11.1882 (Walton 1984); a photocopy of the same engraving (Cumbria Archives: Barrow) bears the architect's name. The scheme revised to produce offices and fire station as shown in original form in a postcard of 1903 (Walton 1983). The archway gave access to fire station outbuildings in yard to rear (listed separately, qv). (Walton J E: A History of Dalton-in-Furness: 1984-: 82; Local History Photocopy File: Dalton in Furness; Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: PL 61).

Listing NGR: SD2302573963

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Legacy System number:: 388603
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Sources

Books and journals
Walton, J E, A History of Dalton in Furness, (1984), 82
Walton, J E, Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1983), 61
'Dalton News' in 4 November, (1882)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.