Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD
708-1/12/24 (North West side)
06/05/76 Ramsden Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY ROAD
Old Baths)

GV II

Baths now disused. 1872. Patron James Ramsden. Brindled brick,
graduated slate roofs.
1-storey aisles enveloping taller centre with clerestorey;
chimney to rear left corner. 3x3 bays; symmetrical.
Entrance breaks forward and has double doors with narrow
panels beneath moulded segmental arch with ram's-head
keystone; frieze above inscribed 'PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BY
JAMES RAMDSEN ESQ. FIRST MAYOR'; cornice to swept roof with
flat top. Set back to each side are 3 small windows with
projecting sills and moulded, segmental arches with keystones;
dentilled parapet to flat roof. Behind these rise small gables
each with oculus and moulded ashlar copings. Taller centre
(set between the ridges of the gables) has sunken panel to
each side of tripartite casement beneath moulded brick arch
and broken segmental pediment with carving; hipped roof.
Right return: doorway on right has integral lantern in
overlight; 3 recessed panels each with 3 short windows having
linked sills and cambered arches. Lean-to roof (continued from
front gable) beneath 9 clerestorey windows having casements
with glazing bars; opening lights to windows 2, 5 and 8 have
scrollwork beneath segmental cornices on shaped brackets. Left
return: round, tapered chimney rises from aisle roof.
INTERIOR: bathing facilities removed. 3-bay arcades with
wooden posts and arch braces. Front end has moulded imposts to
broad arch and pointed side arches; ribbons in relief over.
Other end originally the same but now altered. Queen-post
trusses. Converted to a public hall in 1886, later became
annexe to College of Further Education.

Listing NGR: SD1968869496

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ramsden Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15271693

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)