The Lord Ramsden Public House

The Lord Ramsden Public House is a public house with offices above, built around 1873 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. It features red brick construction with ashlar sandstone dressings and a graduated slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical design on an obtuse-angled corner site facing Duke Street and Ramsden Square.

The façade consists of four bays, with window arrangements of 3:2:2:3 on the first floor. Each end has a four-panel door, and the public-house windows are segmentally arched, set between channel-rusticated ashlar pilasters adorned with carved capitals. The first floor includes a full-width balcony with a decorative iron balustrade, and brick pilasters separate the bays. The round-headed plain sashes are complemented by central openings in the outer bays that feature glazed doorways. An impost string course runs beneath the archivolts, which have carved keystones.

On the second floor, there is a continuous moulded sill band for groups of 4:2:2:4 sashes, linked by an impost string course. Semi-octagonal columns are applied to the brick mullions, with wider brick king mullions in the outer bays. Below the raised segmental archivolts, there are ashlar panels with carved keystones. The building has a string course and corbel table beneath the eaves cornice, and a pierced parapet with ashlar dies over each bay division. The parapet is interrupted by square-headed dormers with cornices on brackets and hipped roofs, with two dormers in each outer bay. The mansard roof features coped parapets on the left gable and center, with brick stacks located at the left end and center.

The Lord Ramsden Public House is part of a planned scheme around Ramsden Square, which serves as the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. The original plans for the building, which are dated 1873, are preserved.