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BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/12/16 (South East side) 06/05/76 Conservative Club (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD Conservative Club including entrance to Queen's Hall)

GV II

Club. 1879-99. By JY McIntosh (plans). Ashlar sandstone facade, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3:3:3 bays. Asymmetrical with pedimented centre and side wings treated differently; Classical details. Moulded plinth; panelled pedestals to fluted Corinthian pilasters at principal divisions; continuous moulded sill bands and fluted 1st floor string course. Main entrance to centre bay has panelled double door and gilded fanlight beneath archivolt with console keystone and carved spandrels; leaded side-lights flanked by pilasters with carved brackets to cornice surmounted by balustraded balcony. Mullioned, 2-light windows to each side have cornices. Bays 1-3 has recessed double doors under round arch within pedimented aedicule; Venetian window to each side. Bays 7-9 have single doorway beneath keyed oculus on left of two 12-pane sashes in architraves. 1st floor: balcony doors and overlight with glazing bars in pedimented aedicule on raised panel; 12-pane sashes to each side have apron panels and segmental arches with keystones within shouldered architraves; windows of bays 7-9 the same. Bay 1-3: blind pilastrade with central, keyed oculus in scrolled panel under arched cornice. Entablature has plain frieze and dentilled cornice; the central pediment modillioned and with keyed oculus in tympanum. Coped ashlar parapet to hipped roof with corniced stack to right of centre and another to right end; truncated ventilator over left wing. Right return: 2 bays in ashlar; 1-storey, 4-bay brick wing on right. INTERIOR: extensively remodelled; former Queen's Hall in left wing now a billiard room with dance-hall over. Foundation stone (on front right pilaster pedestal) laid by Sir Charles Cayzer 17.8.1897; building opened 21.9.1898. Plans survive and are dated 1897, they show a different facade treatment. (Building Plans Register: 1897-: 3678 ALSO BDB/20).

Listing NGR: SD1967369419

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