Springfield Mansions

Springfield Mansions is a large house, dating to circa 1825, and now converted to flats. It may have been designed by Websters of Kendal. The exterior is pebbledashed, with limestone ashlar dressings, and has hipped slate roofs. The east-facing entrance facade is two storeys high, with two bays on each side of a central, two-storey porch. It features a plinth, a sill band to the first floor, and chamfered quoins. The windows are sash windows without glazing bars, set within very narrow ashlar surrounds. The ground floor of the porch is semicircular, containing an entrance doorway recessed within a curved wall. The upper storey of the porch and its supporting columns project beyond the facade in a semicircle. Two baseless Tuscan columns and two half-columns support an entablature. On the first floor are three curved sash windows, separated by pilasters. A two-storey canted bay window of ashlar is included in the south-facing return wall.

The interior features a hall with a tiled, geometrical floor and panelled doors with reeded architraves, including corner bosses. The entrance hall is separated from the stair hall by a screen designed to resemble a Venetian window, incorporating two free-standing Tuscan columns and pilaster responds. The rear wall of the hall is semicircular, and the geometrical staircase has an open string, stick balusters, and a swept mahogany handrail.