Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2274 CHAPEL STREET, Dalton In Furness
708-1/10/161 (South side)
06/05/76 Chappells Tavern
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAPEL STREET, Dalton
Premises occupied by Co-Operative
Society)

GV II

Co-operative stores now public house. Dated 1892. By JY
McIntosh. For the Dalton in Furness Co-Operative Society Ltd.
Builder J Garden. Coursed, squared limestone with red
sandstone dressings; slate roof.
2 storeys; 3:1:4-bay facade wrapped around corner of Nelson
Street and Chapel Street; symmetrical about corner entrance
but with extra bay on right return. Bays 2, 4, 6 & 8 project
slightly and all but bay 4 have shaped gables. Large quoins;
architraved cross-windows with 9-pane transom lights.
Corner entrance (now window) has architrave and date within
carved foliage flanked by pilasters which support a dentilled
segmental pediment. Continuous sill band to single-light
window; dentilled eaves cornice and broken segmental pediment
with large ball finials.
Bay-2 entrance to Nelson Street has architrave and recessed
double doors with sidelights; above are 2 oculi between 3
pilasters which support dentilled cornice crested by scrolls.
Apron panel to 1st-floor window; incised ashlar panel and
moulded sill to miniature attic window set in aedicule, its
triangular pediment forming base to a corniced stack.
Bays 1 & 3 have large shop windows with stained glass in
decorative margin-glazed transom lights; architraves and
dripmoulds. 1st-floor windows are linked by moulded sill band
and cut a string course; dentilled eaves cornice. Copings to
left end gable; hipped roof over corner entrance.
Chapel Street facade differs by having contemporary door
through right-hand shop window; 2 ridge stacks only; 4th bay
with vehicle entrance under shouldered lintel.
INTERIOR: in lobby from Chapel Street are limestone wall
plaques with names of Co-Op committee, architect and builder.
Original wooden staircase has turned balusters and square
newels with carved finials. Modillioned and dentilled cornice
to stair hall.
(Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards:
Netherlands: 1983-: 1, 59).

Listing NGR: SD2287774171

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492328

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