Dykelands

ULVERSTON

SD27NE LIGHTBURN ROAD 626-1/1/53 (South side (off)) Dykelands

II

House. Probably 1834 by George Webster. Roughcast with limestone dressings and slate roof. Built in a cottage ornee style with Gothick detailing. 2 storeys and 4 bays. Facade has overhanging eaves carried on timber brackets with pendant bosses, and gables with pierced and carved barge-boards. The windows are timber casements with leaded glazing, pointed heads to the lights, and transoms to those on the ground floor. The 1st and 2nd bays have square bay windows of 3 lights, the left-hand one with a hipped slate roof with a pierced timber valance with pendants, and the right-hand one with a cornice with brattishing. The left-hand window on the 1st floor has an opening with trefoiled head below a gable. Above the 3rd bay there is also a gable and the 1st-floor window is of 3 stepped lights. The open gabled timber porch, also in the 3rd bay, is carried on 4 columns forming a screen of a central Tudor arch flanked by pointed arches. The barge-boards are plain. The chimneys, on the gables and between the 1st and 2nd bays, have caps with clustered octagonal shafts. INTERIOR: the ground floor has panelled window reveals, doors of raised and fielded panels, and a staircase which has a closed string, slim turned balusters, and an octagonal newel. Above a doorway under the stairs, leading to the rear wing, is a glazed Gothic screen. The fireplace surrounds were renewed in the mid C20.

Listing NGR: SD2768877697