North Lodge To Abbotswood (Not Included), With Attached Gatehouse And Wing Walls

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW BARROW ROAD, Dalton In Furness 708-1/4/156 (East side) 06/05/76 North Lodge to Abbotswood (not included), with attached gatehouse & wing walls (Formerly Listed as: BARROW ROAD, Dalton North Lodge, Abbotswood with attached gateway and boundary wall)

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Lodge, gatehouse and attached wing walls. Late C19. Snecked red sandstone, red tile and flat roofs. 2 storey gatehouse with screen wall to left and 1-bay gabled lodge to right; attached wing walls line approach from Barrow Road. In Gothic Revival style. Gatehouse: full-height diagonal buttresses flank moulded arch with hoodmould rising from impost string course. Crocketed ogee statue niche above the arch is flanked by cusped, square-headed single-light windows with leaded glass. Oversailing parapet steps up and forward over the buttresses. Within the archway are roll-moulded doors to left and right and arch across drive with iron gates. Lodge: 1- and 3-light mullioned transomed windows with leaded glass in ovolo-moulded shouldered surrounds; dripmoulds. String course under 2-light window in pointed recess beneath gable with moulded copings; truncated 3-five ridge stack on ashlar base with offsets. Screen wall on left of gatehouse has 3, trefoiled lancets and oversailing parapet with triangular copings. Wing walls return at right-angles from lodge and screen wall to line curved approach: chamfered plinth, intermediate piers with offsets, triangular copings. Built to serve Abbotswood (demolished) former home of James Ramsden, 1st Mayor of Barrow.

Listing NGR: SD2218272816