Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1968 MICHAELSON ROAD, Barrow Island
708-1/13/92 (West side)
Front range ADO building, lodge,
gateway & railings at VSEL Engine
Gate

GV II

Company offices and works entrance with gateway and attached
railings. c1913. For Vickers Ltd. Ashlar and coursed red
sandstone, slate roof.
3 storeys, 5x2 bays with lean-to gatehouse and double gates on
left and with railings in 3 panels on right.
Main building is symmetrical and has rusticated ashlar ground
floor. Central entrance with Art Nouveau style iron gates;
pilasters with diamond panels and console brackets to
dentilled broken pediment over basket arch with keystone.
Interrupted sill band to 4/1-pane casements in pairs; the
outer windows have lower sills and ashlar transoms; lintel
band and continuous dripmould over.
1st floor: moulded sill band and moulded cornice link three
4-light oriel bay windows with ashlar corbelling, curved
corners, ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms and ashlar roofs;
single-light windows to bays 2 and 4. 2nd floor: moulded sill
band links cross-windows above each oriel and single-light
windows to bays 2 and 4. Modillioned cornice with solid
parapet; coped end gables.
Adjoining on left is the workers' entrance with
double-chamfered surround beneath panel marked 'WORKS
ENTRANCE'; coped parapet with large ashlar scroll. Iron gates
to left have close bars beneath twin mid-rails, scrollwork and
arched rails above; spear finials and scrolled stiles. To
right of main range is a curved wall with 3 sections of
railings in Art Nouveau style.
INTERIOR (not fully inspected): coffered ceiling to entrance
lobby; margin-glazed doors and screen. Stair hall has eared
door architraves; coffered ceiling and stone staircase with
ornate wrought-iron balustrade.
Built as part of a major phase of expansion of the
shipbuilding and engineering works immediately prior to the
Great War.

Listing NGR: SD1970768638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580043

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)