Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW ABBEY ROAD 708-1/4/11 (South East side) 10/11/49 Abbey House Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Abbey House)

GV II*

Mansion. 1910-1914. By Edwin Lutyens. For Vickers Ltd. Irregularly coursed red ashlar standstone, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys in H-plan extended by 2-storey cross-wings. Elizabethan style; symmetrical. Recessed, chamfered mullioned windows with leaded lights in metal casements; parapets with copings formed from topmost wallstones; cast-iron rainwater goods with square down-pipes and decorative hoppers. Central entrance in semi-octagonal projection with double-chamfered plinth and double door in round arch; oversailing course steps over panel with date 'A.D. 1914' and cartouche bearing Vickers arms. 2-light windows to 2nd floor. Main range to each side has two 2-light windows and cross-window to ground floor; 3 first-floor windows each having king mullion and 4 round-arched lights; paired cross-windows to 2nd floor. Front wings have canted 3-storey bay windows of 1:4:1 lights with transoms; 1st floor lit from side by round-headed mullioned windows. Main range continues beyond these wings and has round-arched doors flanked by 2-light windows; upper floor windows as before. Crosswings at each end of main range have gables set behind their parapets. Main-range parapet has corner chimneys each with moulded plinth and caps to 5 linked octagonal flues; similar 3-flue stacks to outer returns of the front wings and 4-flue ridge stacks to each side of centre. Rear: central recess with canted bay-window lighting the Great Hall. Wings to each side have canted bay windows to their ends and outer returns; to inner returns are projecting stacks, each with 4 flues above the parapet. The 2-storey cross-wings also end in canted bay windows. INTERIOR not fully inspected: ashlar-lined vestibule with pilasters and half-columns. Great Hall: oak panelling and staircase; bolection-moulded fireplace with tiled fireback; coffered ceiling. Restaurant in rear right wing has marble fireplace with wreath over; saucer-dome ceiling.

Listing NGR: SD2168672111

External Links

• Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4664023

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)