127, 129 AND 131, DUKE STREET

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/56 (South West side) 06/05/76 Nos.127, 129 AND 131 (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.121-131 (Odd))

GV II

Shops with offices over. c1873. By Paley and Austin (plans). Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; 4 bays with groups of 3:2:2:3 windows to 1st floor. Symmetrical about obtuse-angled corner site facing Ramsden Square and Abbey Road. Doorway to each end, 1 office front and 3 shop fronts all set between channel-rusticated, ashlar pilasters with carved capitals. 1st floor: full-width balcony with decorative iron balustrade; brick pilasters between bays. Round-headed plain sashes; central openings of outer bays have glazed doorways; impost string course to archivolts with carved keystones. 2nd floor: continuous, moulded sill band to groups of 4:2:2:4 sashes linked by impost string course; semi-octagonal columns applied to brick mullions; wider brick king mullions to the outer bays; ashlar panels beneath raised, segmental archivolts with carved keystones. String course and corbel table beneath eaves cornice. Pierced parapet with ashlar dies over each bay division. The parapet broken by square-headed dormers with brackets to triangular pediments with ball finials; each outer bay has 2 dormers; bay 3 dormer has smaller pediment raised over sunken panel. Mansard roof with coped parapet to right gable and 2 brick ridge stacks, that to left taller and with decorative panelling. Plans survive and are dated 1873. Forms part of planned scheme around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: 400).

Listing NGR: SD1957969346