125, Duke Street

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/55 (South West side) 06/05/76 No.125 (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.121-131 (Odd))

GV II

Bank, now offices facing Ramsden Square. c1873. For the Cumberland Union Bank Co (plans register). Ashlar sandstone on limestone plinth, slate roof. 3 storeys and attic, 4 bays. Moulded plinth; channel-rusticated ground floor. Entrance to bay 1 has panelled double doors under ashlar transom inscribed BANK; overlight and archivolt with carved keystone; fluted pilasters with bayleaf swags; winged-lion brackets to modillioned cornice surmounted by balustraded balcony with panelled corner dies and fluted ball finials. Other bays have limestone sill band to recessed round-arched sashes with carved keystones; modillioned cornice. 1st floor: balcony door and plain sashes with moulded sill band and Ionic aedicules having plain friezes and dentilled cornices. Continuous, dentilled cornice breaks forward over each bay to form sills of windows above. 2nd floor: sashes flanked by fluted pilasters beneath entablature with groups of 3 corbels at the bay divisions. Ashlar parapet broken by square-headed dormers with cornices on brackets and raised segmental pediments. Mansard roof with ornate end stacks having offsets, panelled sides, string courses and cornices on corbel tables. INTERIOR: banking hall with oak dado-panelling and 9-panel doors; ceiling in 3 panels with Greek key, rosette and guilloche ornament. Main staircase to rear left has turned balusters and wreathed handrail. Forms part of planned scheme around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: 391 (NO PLANS)).

Listing NGR: SD1959869343