Millwood

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BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW MILLWOOD LANE 708-1/4/96 (East side) 22/01/92 Millwood (Formerly Listed as: MILLWOOD LANE (East side) Millwood House)

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Large house. c1860. Probably by Edward Browning of Stamford (archives). Altered and extended c1876 by Paley and Austin (plan). For Edward Wadham agent to the Duke of Buccleuch. Coursed sandstone on slate basement, ashlar limestone sills and red sandstone dressings; the later work all in red sandstone; graduated slate roofs. 2 storeys with half-basement, approx 4x4 bays in High Victorian Gothic style; 3x2 bay addition set lower on south side. Entrance front: ashlar plinth with moulded band; quoins; diagonal buttress on left. 6-panelled door under arched stone transom with ball-flowers; plain overlight; shield above with BQ monogram in crowned Belt of the Garter; small sash over. Doorway hoodmould becomes continuous string course, forms annulets around fallpipes and rises to right over tall, 3-light stair window with transom, shouldered lights and heraldic glass; relieving arch over. Boarded window beneath the stair-window and another on its right below a tall sash; all have quoined surrounds. To left of door is a broad lateral stack with offsets and twin, square flues under shared cap with ball-flowers. Above the stair-window a gable with moulded copings and fleur-de-lys finial; smaller gables to each side have kneelers with gablets. Steeply pitched end gables, that on right with twin flue stack as before. Rear: battered half-basement walling; gabled left part projects and has bay-window on 3 limestone brackets beneath later, wooden bay-window. To right is a shallow bay-window with ashlar roof; gabled half-dormer with animal-head gargoyle to its left. 5-flue stack rises from valley. Left return: 2 gables, that to left with external stack pierced by pointed window; blank shield above. Buttressed gable projecting on right has canted bay-window of 1:4:1 lights with shouldered heads; ashlar bay-window above is of 1876. Addition of 1876 is much plainer and has plain sashes in chamfered, mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights. South side has 1-storey porch and gable with bellcote flanked by roof dormers. INTERIOR: stairhall in Gothic Revival style; patterned and encoustic tile floor; staircase with balustrade of colonnettes with cusped arches between, octagonal newels with finials. Stained glass stair window with Buccleuch monogram and motto as well as spiritually uplifting texts on diagonal banners; panelled ceiling. Front-left room with pierced oak-leaf cornice. Rear-left room with marble fireplace beneath a window and pierced ivy-trail cornice. Rear room with panelled ceiling. Home of Edward Wadham, mineral agent to the Duke from c1856 and Mayor of Barrow 1878-1881. Became home for the elderly c1947, disused at time of survey. Buccleuch archives contain papers relating to the alteration and rebuilding of 'the villa at Millwood' c1860, the year of Edward Wadham's marriage. An undated illustration shows Millwood with an older house on the site of the 1876 addition (Trescatheric); plans for the 1876 work survive. (Buccleuch Archives: 1860-: BD/BUC/42 BUNDLE 2; Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: 111; Building Plans Register: 1876-: NO.1089).

Listing NGR: SD2181273038

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Sources

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Trescatheric, B, Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1982), 111

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