Lowfields Park

SD 67 SW 1/12 20.2.58

BURTON IN LONSDALE LOWFIELDS PARK Lowfields Park (formerly listed as Lowfield)

GV II

House. Late C18-early C19 with C20 alterations. Painted ashlar, slate roof. Central staircase plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central entrance in Queen Anne Revival porch c1910, Gibbs surround, round head and keystone with round headed hood on scrolled wooden consoles; dentilled cornice and traceried fanlight. Original entrance to house has Tuscan pilasters with chamfered arrises, base and capitals and pediment over plain cornice; glazed door c1910. Projecting ground floor of same build as porch with a 5-light window with wooden mullions and transoms to left and right; dentilled cornice to lean-to hipped roof. Upper floor string course. 3 upper floor windows have revealed sashes; external shutters - Quoins. Cornice. Shaped kneelers and gable end coping. Gable end ridge stacks. Central leaded cupola with weather vane. Projecting 2-storey bay added to left-hand return c1910 with a later semi-octagonal conservatory against the gable and the wing. Rear contains large central staircase window with plain surround and round head with impost blocks, keystone and 2 transoms. Interior: staircase has deep, probably C18 treads with later broadly spaced stick balusters and wreathed handrail.

Listing NGR: SD6394772322