St George'S House

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2068NW SALTHOUSE ROAD 708-1/14/129 (North side) 06/09/73 St George's House (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE St George's Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage now flats. Probably c1860 by EG Paley (as Church of St George, qv). Slate rubble with quoins and ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, irregular T-shaped plan. Gothic Revival style. Quoined, mullioned windows with wooden casements, pointed arched lights and relieving arches; 1st-floor windows have shouldered lights. South side (facing church): 1:3 bays, bay 1 projecting as a crosswing. Doorway to bay 3 has moulded pointed arch with heads carved on the hoodmould stops; other bays have 3-light windows. 1st floor: 3-light windows to wing and to bay 2; two-light window over door, another to bay 4 in recess beneath dichromatic arch. Ovolo-moulded stone gutter; gables to wing and bay 4 have kneelers and chamfered ashlar copings. 3 slate ridge stacks with ashlar offsets. Right return (facing Salthouse Road): return of front wing has 3-light window to each floor; main range has same, then a gable with 1-storey, canted, bay window of 1:2:1 lights with transom beneath two 2-light windows.

Listing NGR: SD2031268786