Duke Of Edinburgh Hotel

708-1/5/18 SD16NE 06/05/76

BARROW IN FURNESS ABBEY ROAD (South East side) Duke of Edinburgh Hotel

GV II

Hotel now public house. c1875. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; on corner site with 8 bays to Abbey Road, corner oriel and shorter left return to Rawlinson Street. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth; moulded string course beneath ground-floor sill band. Two quoined doorways to Abbey Road have colonnettes, Gothic-panelled doors, overlights with intersecting glazing bars and moulded arches with hoodmoulds. Triple-, double- and single-light windows in irregular rhythm: colonnette mullions, sashes under pointed arches and linked hoodmoulds. Angled corner bay has single-light windows flanking granite shaft supporting the oriel. 1st floor: ornate brackets to full-width balcony with cast-iron balustrade having foliate panels and posts with finials; hotel name in bold letters. Windows in rhythm 1:2:1:2:2:1:2:1 have sashes in recessed ashlar surrounds under brick pointed arches; continuous hoodmoulds and blue-brick relieving arches. The 2-light windows have colonnette mullions and quatrefoils in ashlar panels over. 2nd floor: sill and lintel bands link recessed, square-headed sashes in same rhythm; pilaster mullions. Corner oriel: corbelling with ball-flowers under semi-octagon with 3 trefoil-headed sashes under linked triangular hoodmoulds; 2nd floor sashes have lintels with roundels under trefoils; carved cornice now topped by brick parapet. Main eaves has compound brick corbelling; hipped roof with 7 dormers to Abbey Road having casements under oversailing verges on arch braces. Plain brick stacks to ridge and left return slope. Left return: pointed doorway flanked by 3-light and 2-light windows; all windows and 2 roof dormers as front. 2 unequal, gabled additions on left are set lower. INTERIOR: stair hall is half-panelled in mahogany; impressive staircase rising through 3 floors in open well under coved ceiling with lantern: turned balusters linked by pierced panels under moulded handrail; bold newel posts.

Listing NGR: SD1997969697