4, Duke Street

SD1969SE 708-1/12/47 06/05/76

BARROW IN FURNESS DUKE STREET (North East side) No.4

GV II

Large house now doctors' and dentists' surgeries. c1900. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys; 3-bay entrance front to Duke Street, angled corner-bay on left and 2-bay left return having 2-storey, 2-bay wing on its left. Asymmetrical. Mostly mullioned and transomed windows with plain sashes set behind the transoms. Entrance front: moulded plinth; bay 2 projects and bay 3 breaks forward further, both are gabled. Bay-2 porch has moulded, quoined doorway with 3 round-arched transom lights under basket arch with hoodmould and carved stops; small round-arched window to right and ashlar offsets over. Ovolo-moulded, 3-light stair-window above has 2 transoms, stained glass and arched lights beneath segmental arch with keystone and hoodmould. Bay 1 has segmentally-arched sash with hoodmould to ground and 1st floors. Bay 3 has 2-storey, cavetto-moulded, canted bay-window of 1:2:1 lights with transoms; cornice with fleurons beneath parapet with blind, pointed arches. 2nd floor: bay 1 is blind; bay 2 with cross-window having arched lights and hoodmould under relieving arch; bay 3 with transomed 3-light window having hoodmould with carved stops and finial. Moulded eaves cornice over bay 1. Corner bay: large, curved oriel window with ashlar corbelling, sunken apron panels and cornice surmounted by pierced parapet; cross-window above. Gables to corner bay, bay 2 and bay 3 have shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar gable copings and finials; gables of bays 2 & 3 also have slits. Hipped roof with terracotta ridges and finials. Single-flue stack to ridge on left; multiple-flue stacks to left-return ridge and right end; the stacks have panelled shafts. Left return is plainer; small gable above 2 cross-windows set between ashlar shafts. INTERIOR: lobby doors with coloured, leaded glass. Stair hall: small corner fireplace with canopy; embossed dado depicting pot plants; staircase has fluted and panelled newels with finials; stained, square rods to oak handrail. 3 ground-floor doorways with architraves and brattished cornices, 2 have 9-panel doors and pointed recesses over. 2 pointed arches on landing; panelled ceiling with moulded ribs. Staircase to 2nd floor has slender, turned balusters. Not shown on 1895 OS map but likely to have been built soon after.

Listing NGR: SD1996069001