Oaklands

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW ABBEY ROAD 708-1/4/21 (South East side) 06/05/76 Oaklands (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Dunlop House)

GV II

Large house. 1913-14. For Vickers Ltd. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 windows to 1st floor. 2 parallel ranges offset so as to form re-entrant angles at each end. Garden front: large quoins; off-centre doorway flanked by single-storey 4x1-light bay windows with mullions, transoms and stained-glass transom lights beneath oversailing, embattled parapets with string courses. 1st floor has paired and single sashes with stained-glass upper lights; central stair-window with 2 transoms and stained glass. Chamfered eaves band, shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; corniced end stacks. Entrance front is less regular and has C20 door within broad segmental arch with keystone and hoodmould; 3-light mullioned windows above and corbelled lateral stack on left; various other windows, mostly plain sashes. In re-entrant angle on left is a small 3x1-light bay window in style of others. INTERIOR: some oak panelling, oak staircase.

Listing NGR: SD2164771850