Burlington House

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SD1968 708-1/13/58

BARROW IN FURNESS DUKE STREET (south west side) Burlington House

(Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) County Court, and former Post Office)

06/05/76

GV II Post office now offices (entered from Burlington Street). c1890 and early C20. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roofs. Two storeys, 2:3:2 bays; symmetrical elevation about corner site. Early C20 addition facing Michaelson Road has ten windows to first floor.

Corner range: plinth; curved centre between taller end pavilions. Left end: door with moulded surround and two-pane overlight on left of ovolo-moulded cross-window; cornices; continuous first floor sill band to two similar cross-windows; frieze of moulded terracotta tiles at eaves. Right end similar but without the doorway. Centre has a pair of recessed, round-arched windows to each bay; impost string curse and linked hoodmoulds. Over each pair is a square-headed window in corbelled panel rising as a gabled dormer with gablet kneelers, ashlar copings and ball finials; small four-pane sashes flank the centre window. String course beneath moulded eaves.

End pavilions have hipped roofs with lead finials; end stack on left has gablets on offsets, string course and cornice. Early C20 addition: infilled segmental archway on left has double keystone which breaks a modillioned cornice; similar arch to far right has three (original?) windows beneath. In recess between the arches are four large windows then a fifth window flanked by doorways with ashlar surrounds and lintels marked 'STAFF ENTRANCE' and 'POST OFFICE'; continuous first floor sill band to cross windows, alternate windows within the central recess are treated as the c1890 dormers.

(Not to be confused with the Burlington Arms/Hotel building, opened 1887)

Listing NGR: SD1990868982