Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 CHURCH STREET, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/165 (North side) 06/05/76 Nos.5 AND 5A Bank House (5) and Church House (5A) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Dalton (North side) Nos.1-6 (Consecutive))

GV II

2 houses formerly farmhouse and attached barn (Walton). Late C18-early C19, altered C19 and C20. Roughcast over stone, plain and graduated slate roofs. Bank House (No.5): 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows to 1st floor; No.5A on left has 2 storeys and 2 windows to 1st floor. Bank House: doorway on left with part-glazed, 6-panel door under moulded stone hood on Doric columns; two 4-pane sashes to right have projecting sills and raised surrounds; canted bay window to left of doorway. 1st floor: over door is a C20 canted bay window with plain sashes and glazed roof; 16-pane sash on right. Altered attic windows in gabled half-dormers. Limestone end stacks. No.5A: C20 door with sidelights flanked, on left, by large C20 casement with arched lights and, on right, by the bay window to Bank House. 1st floor: two C20 casements with glazing bars. End stack on left and tall ridge stack. INTERIOR: Bank House has basket-arched recess and round-arched limestone fireplace in ground-floor room to front right; altered staircase. Both shown in a photograph of 1896: Bank House then with original windows to upper floors; No.5A with large bay window to left of door. The columns said to have come from a building fronting Dalton Castle. Large window of No.5A lit a billiard room in annexe to Bank House. No.5A included for group value and because of interlocked freehold. (Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: 45).

Listing NGR: SD2255473916

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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