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Latitude: 54.1105 / 54°6'37"N
Longitude: -3.2266 / 3°13'35"W
OS Eastings: 319908
OS Northings: 468982
OS Grid: SD199689
Mapcode National: GBR 5NXX.78
Mapcode Global: WH72H.DYS7
Plus Code: 9C6R4Q6F+59
Entry Name: Burlington House
Listing Date: 6 May 1976
Last Amended: 20 December 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197855
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388457
ID on this website: 101197855
Location: St Patrick's Church, Barrow Island, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA14
County: Westmorland and Furness
District: Barrow-in-Furness
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Barrow-in-Furness
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Barrow-in-Furness St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: House
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SD1968
708-1/13/58
BARROW IN FURNESS
DUKE STREET (south west side)
Burlington House
(Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) County Court, and former Post Office)
06/05/76
GV
II
Post office now offices (entered from Burlington Street). c1890 and early C20. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roofs. Two storeys, 2:3:2 bays; symmetrical elevation about corner site. Early C20 addition facing Michaelson Road has ten windows to first floor.
Corner range: plinth; curved centre between taller end pavilions. Left end: door with moulded surround and two-pane overlight on left of ovolo-moulded cross-window; cornices; continuous first floor sill band to two similar cross-windows; frieze of moulded terracotta tiles at eaves. Right end similar but without the doorway. Centre has a pair of recessed, round-arched windows to each bay; impost string curse and linked hoodmoulds. Over each pair is a square-headed window in corbelled panel rising as a gabled dormer with gablet kneelers, ashlar copings and ball finials; small four-pane sashes flank the centre window. String course beneath moulded eaves.
End pavilions have hipped roofs with lead finials; end stack on left has gablets on offsets, string course and cornice. Early C20 addition: infilled segmental archway on left has double keystone which breaks a modillioned cornice; similar arch to far right has three (original?) windows beneath. In recess between the arches are four large windows then a fifth window flanked by doorways with ashlar surrounds and lintels marked 'STAFF ENTRANCE' and 'POST OFFICE'; continuous first floor sill band to cross windows, alternate windows within the central recess are treated as the c1890 dormers.
(Not to be confused with the Burlington Arms/Hotel building, opened 1887)
Listing NGR: SD1990868982
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