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Latitude: 54.1082 / 54°6'29"N
Longitude: -3.222 / 3°13'19"W
OS Eastings: 320205
OS Northings: 468728
OS Grid: SD202687
Mapcode National: GBR 5NYY.72
Mapcode Global: WH72H.GZYY
Plus Code: 9C6R4Q5H+76
Entry Name: 1, St Georges Square
Listing Date: 6 May 1976
Last Amended: 20 December 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282846
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388575
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14
County: Cumbria
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Built-Up Area: Barrow-in-Furness
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Barrow-in-Furness St George
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD2068NW ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
708-1/14/137 (West side)
06/05/76 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
No.1
Hospital Education Centre)
GV II
Bank now health club. Dated 1864. For the Lancaster Banking
Company. Ashlar limestone with brick to rear, graduated slate
roof. 2 storeys, 4:1:3 bays wrapped around corner of The
Strand and St George's Square. Moulded plinth; rusticated
ground floor; recessed corner bay set on curve. Plain sashes
now partially replaced by casements. A pair of doorways to St
George's Square are set in raised panel: each has pilasters
with composite capitals and archivolt with mask keystone.
Right-hand doorway has 8-panel door and plain fanlight;
left-hand doorway is now a window. Sash on right has sunken
apron, recessed surround and segmental arch with keystone;
continuous cornice. 1st-floor sill band to similar, but
square-headed, window surrounds. String course below
modillions to simple cornice with blocking course. Corner bay
lit by segmentally-arched window to each floor; oval date
plaque on blocking course has scrolled supports and anthemion.
Hipped roof; ridge stack and end stacks with modillioned
cornices. Left return windows as front. INTERIOR: original
staircase with cast-iron balustrade panels and wreathed
mahogany handrail; margin-glazed ceiling light. Banking hall
ceiling now underdrawn.
Listing NGR: SD2020568728
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