Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 MARKET PLACE, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/175 (West side) No.11

GV II

Former co-operative stores now restaurant. c1870. Scored stucco with limestone quoins, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 3x3 bays. Plinth, rock-faced quoins. Central doorway with overlight and wooden pilasters; outer bays have C20 eight-pane casements in shallow recesses. Angled corner on right has window in position of former door. Continuous wooden fascia with cornice. 1st floor: sill band to 4-pane sashes in raised surrounds. 2nd floor: projecting sills to short 4-pane sashes. String course and bracketed eaves overhang former pediment over central bay. Hipped roof with corniced limestone end stacks. Right return: fascia continues over bay-1 casement. Upper floors as front except 2nd floor, bay-1 window is infilled; pediment as front. Prominent location within Market Place. Original shop windows shown in various early C20 photographs (Walton). (Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: PL 16, 17).

Listing NGR: SD2260873963

External Links

• Wikidata Q26512972

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)