13, Fountain Street

ULVERSTON

SD2878 FOUNTAIN STREET 626-1/3/29 (North side) 20/06/72 No.13

GV II

House. Early to mid C19. Probably by Websters of Kendal. Painted roughcast with painted ashlar dressings, limestone ashlar plinth, and slate roofs. 3 storeys and 5 bays, with the left-hand bay projecting forwards and having a carriage entrance and a gable. Above the 2 right-hand bays there is also a gable, which may be a later alteration, and the 2nd-floor windows of these bays are taller than those of the 2 immediately to the left. The windows are glazing-bar sashes with painted surrounds. A 1st-floor sill band. The carriage entrance has a plain stone surround with elliptical arch, moulded imposts, and a keystone. 3 stone steps lead to the doorway, in the 4th bay, which has a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with a Tuscan pediment. INTERIOR: the dogleg staircase has an open string, stick balusters, and a wreathed mahogany handrail. The doors are panelled, with the borders to the panels formed by applied astragal mouldings. The left-hand front room on the ground floor contains a marble fireplace surround, now painted, which has engaged unfluted Greek Doric columns. The room above on the 1st floor contains a fireplace with a hob grate and a marble surround with reeding and anthemion decoration.

Listing NGR: SD2870678461