Bank House Church House

Bank House and Church House are a pair of houses located at 5 and 5A Church Street, Dalton in Furness. They were originally a farmhouse and attached barn, dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Bank House (No. 5) has roughcast stonework and a plain and graduated slate roof. It is two storeys and an attic, with two windows on the first floor. The doorway is on the left, featuring a part-glazed, six-panel door sheltered by a moulded stone hood supported by Doric columns. To the right are two four-pane sash windows with projecting sills and raised surrounds. A canted bay window is located to the left of the doorway. The first floor features a 20th-century canted bay window above the door, with plain sashes and a glazed roof, and a 16-pane sash window to the right. Altered attic windows are set within gabled half-dormers. The house has limestone end stacks.

Church House (No. 5A) also has roughcast stonework and a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has two windows on the first floor. A 20th-century door with sidelights is flanked on the left by a large 20th-century casement window with arched lights, and on the right by the bay window of Bank House. The first floor has two casement windows with glazing bars. There is an end stack on the left and a tall ridge stack.

The interior of Bank House includes a basket-arched recess and a round-arched limestone fireplace in the front right ground-floor room, as well as an altered staircase. An 1896 photograph shows Bank House with its original upper-floor windows and No. 5A with a large bay window to the left of the door. The Doric columns on the doorway are said to have been taken from a building fronting Dalton Castle. A large window in No. 5A formerly lit a billiard room in an annex to Bank House. Church House is included in the listing due to its group value and interlocked freehold.