125, DUKE STREET
125, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283001
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 125, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 125, DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283001
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 125, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 125, 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:
- 125, 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 19598 69343
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/55 (South West side) 06/05/76 No.125 (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.121-131 (Odd))
GV II
Bank, now offices facing Ramsden Square. c1873. For the Cumberland Union Bank Co (plans register). Ashlar sandstone on limestone plinth, slate roof. 3 storeys and attic, 4 bays. Moulded plinth; channel-rusticated ground floor. Entrance to bay 1 has panelled double doors under ashlar transom inscribed BANK; overlight and archivolt with carved keystone; fluted pilasters with bayleaf swags; winged-lion brackets to modillioned cornice surmounted by balustraded balcony with panelled corner dies and fluted ball finials. Other bays have limestone sill band to recessed round-arched sashes with carved keystones; modillioned cornice. 1st floor: balcony door and plain sashes with moulded sill band and Ionic aedicules having plain friezes and dentilled cornices. Continuous, dentilled cornice breaks forward over each bay to form sills of windows above. 2nd floor: sashes flanked by fluted pilasters beneath entablature with groups of 3 corbels at the bay divisions. Ashlar parapet broken by square-headed dormers with cornices on brackets and raised segmental pediments. Mansard roof with ornate end stacks having offsets, panelled sides, string courses and cornices on corbel tables. INTERIOR: banking hall with oak dado-panelling and 9-panel doors; ceiling in 3 panels with Greek key, rosette and guilloche ornament. Main staircase to rear left has turned balusters and wreathed handrail. Forms part of planned scheme around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: 391 (NO PLANS)).
Listing NGR: SD1959869343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388454
- 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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