Burlington House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Former post office, offices. 2 related planning applications.
Burlington House
- WRENN ID
- tired-corridor-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Former post office, offices
- Address
- Burlington House, Duke Street, Barrow in Furness, LA14 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 196 684
- Coordinates
- 54.1052, -3.23019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burlington House is a building located on Duke Street in Barrow-in-Furness, originally serving as a post office and now functioning as offices. It was constructed around 1890 and features elements from the early 20th century. The structure is made of red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings and has graduated slate roofs. It stands two stories high and has a symmetrical elevation with a layout of two bays, three bays, and two bays, positioned on a corner site.
The corner range includes a plinth and a curved center flanked by taller end pavilions. On the left side, there is a door with a moulded surround and a two-pane overlight next to an ovolo-moulded cross-window. This side also features cornices and a continuous first-floor sill band that runs beneath two similar cross-windows, along with a frieze of moulded terracotta tiles at the eaves. The right side mirrors the left but does not have a doorway. The center section contains a pair of recessed, round-arched windows in each bay, with an impost string course and linked hoodmoulds. Above each pair of windows is a square-headed window set in a corbelled panel that rises into a gabled dormer, complete with gablet kneelers, ashlar copings, and ball finials. Small four-pane sash windows are positioned on either side of the center window, and there is a string course beneath the moulded eaves.
The end pavilions feature hipped roofs with lead finials. The left end stack has gablets on offsets, along with a string course and cornice. The early 20th-century addition includes an infilled segmental archway on the left with a double keystone that interrupts a modillioned cornice. A similar arch is found on the far right, which has three windows beneath it. In the recess between the arches, there are four large windows, followed by a fifth window flanked by doorways that have ashlar surrounds and lintels labeled 'STAFF ENTRANCE' and 'POST OFFICE'. The continuous first-floor sill band is present beneath the cross-windows, and alternate windows within the central recess are designed to resemble the dormers from around 1890.
This building should not be confused with the Burlington Arms/Hotel, which opened in 1887.
Local climate
Burlington House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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