Railwaymen'S Club And Premises Of Hsp Printing

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BARROW IN FURNESS ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (South side) Former Railwaymen's Club and former premises of HSP Printing

(Formerly Listed as Railwaymen's Club and premises of HSP Printing, previously listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE Railwaymen's Club and Northern Supplies Warehouse)

06/05/76

GV II

Former railway station then Railwaymen’s club with flat over and commercial premises. c1865. For the Furness Railway Co. Red brick with blue brick ornament and sandstone dressings, graduated slate roofs.

Centre block of two storeys and four bays; one-storey, four bay side wings. Near-symmetrical composition. Centre: plinth; brick chequerwork beneath impost string course to central two-bay arcade having granite column and polychrome round arch with sandstone hoodmould; recess within has angled side doors flanking a blocked door and small window all beneath round arches and linked by the impost string course. External narrow round arch doorway in left return of central section. Outer bays have moulded sills to three-light windows with granite colonnette mullions and ashlar springers to segmental arches. first floor: recessed panels rising into gablets over small two-light windows as those to ground floor. Dentilled eaves to hipped roof with end stacks (that on right truncated).

Left wing (now painted): one:three bays. Bays two-four set back, have three-light windows as before, bay two with wider central lights. Bay one is gabled and has recessed panel now with doorway through former two-light window. Dentilled brickwork to eaves and gable parapet; two truncated ridge stacks.

Right wing: original three-light windows flank C20 entrance; three single-light windows to bay four; eaves and stacks as left wing.

Rear: 11 false gables with round-arched recess beneath each.

Left return: two blocked archways.

INTERIOR: altered. Two railway lines originally ran through the length of the building, the left return arches representing train entrances, the rear archways presumably giving ventilation. Intact cast iron canopy with wooden ceiling between glass roof lights. Listing NGR: SD2022068666