The Lord Ramsden Public House

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/54 (South West side) 06/05/76 Nos.121 AND 123 The Lord Ramsden Public House (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.121-131 (Odd))

GV II

Public house 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 Duke Street and Ramsden Square. 4-panel doors to each end and segmentally-arched public-house windows 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 cornices on brackets and hipped roofs; each outer bay has 2 dormers. Mansard roof with coped parapets to left gable and centre; brick stacks to left end and centre. 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: SD1961469343