Hotel Majestic

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/61 (South West side) 06/05/76 Hotel Majestic (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Majestic Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Dated 'HT 1904', altered. By JY McIntosh. For Henry Tyson (plan). Red brick with red ashlar sandstone to ground floor and to dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys with attic, 2:3:3:2 bays; bays 1 and 2 flat the rest set on curve, outer bays broader. Chamfered plinth, channel-rusticated ground floor; principal bay divisions have 3-storey pilasters. Ground floor: ashlar doorcase to bay 3 (now a window) has archivolt and Jacobean panels above the cornice; simpler doorcase to bay 9 with panelled double doors and segmental pediment raised on 3 short pilasters; a 3rd doorway to bay 1 (also now a window) has dentilled cornice and pedimented niche over. Moulded limestone sills linked by band; later casements in bolection-moulded architraves with pulvinated friezes and segmental pediments; canopied entrance formed through bay-2 windows. Cornice forms sills to 1st-floor windows and from it rise 2-storey pilasters between the central bays. Unequally-hung sashes with lintels and cornices; outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows in corniced architraves. Sunken apron panels to shorter, 2nd-floor windows; outer windows with pilaster mullions. Principal-pilaster capitals carved with volutes and Edwardian masks; date to centre. 2nd-floor cornice breaks forward over all pilasters and from it, over each end, rise stylised Flemish gables each with large scrolled supports, windows on 2 levels and 2 pilasters supporting a segmental pediment. Ashlar balustrade to centre; behind are 6 gabled roof dormers and a central brick stack with panelled sides; matching ridge stack behind left gable. Various plans submitted for this building from 1901-1903. Dormers shown as round-headed in early C20 photograph. (Building Plans Register: 1903-: 4716; Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL 106).

Listing NGR: SD1988269024