Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD26SW TOWER STREET, Roa Island
708-1/8/241 (North side)
06/05/76 No.14
Tower House
(Formerly Listed as:
TOWER STREET, Roa Island
Former coastguard house to NE of Roa
Island Mission)

GV II

Coastguard's house now private dwelling. Mid C19. Cement
render and scored stucco with ashlar sandstone dressings,
graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Chamfered plinth;
cement quoins on right. Central feature has raised ashlar
doorcase with pilasters, frieze panel and cornice on consoles
that are repeated in profile to each side; above is
a sunken apron to shell niche beneath archivolt on consoles.
Large, 3-light windows to ground floor have quoined,
ovolo-moulded surrounds to C20 casements beneath cornices
(stone mullions and transoms removed). Short 3-light windows
to 1st floor have matching surrounds without cornices
(mullions removed) and are set in gabled half-dormers. Shaped
kneelers and moulded gable copings to the dormers and end
gables. Large end stack on left.

Listing NGR: SD2321164878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496843

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)