111-119, DUKE STREET

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/53 (South West side) 06/05/76 Nos.111-119 (Odd)

GV II

Various commercial premises and offices. c1870. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, slate roofs. 2 storeys and attic; 6 broad bays to Duke Street, angled corner bay to left and 4 bay left return to Parade Street. Upper floors have plain sashes throughout. Nos 111-115: probably early C20 shop fronts, that to No.115 has pilasters and 8-panel door on right of 3 arched lights with ventilators in the spandrels; pilasters also flank the other, plainer shop windows under continuous fascia and cornice; No.111 has corner doorway with tall overlight. 1st floor: sill band and impost string course to windows of 3 round-headed lights beneath scalloped ashlar arches with hoodmoulds; single window to the corner bay; nosed string course and corbel table to cast-iron gutter carried across facade as a cornice. Attic storey: paired half-dormers with pilasters and shells under corbelled, round-arched hoods; string course beneath ashlar gutter to mansard roof. Nos 117 & 119: altered ground floors; upper floor of No.117 as Nos 111-115; upper floors of No.119 have same details but with two 2-light windows to 1st floor and 3 dormers to the attic. Roof is hipped over left corner and has brick stacks to front slope over the party walls (the 2 stacks on right are truncated). Left return: shop front continues for 1 bay; to left of this is a door flanked by windows all with rubbed-brick, segmental windows arches with hood-moulds. 1st floor: bays 3 & 4 have 2-light windows as front; single-light window to bay 1 and narrow 2-light window to bay 2 have rubbed-brick arches. Single dormers as front.

Listing NGR: SD1964369312