Description

ULVERSTON

SD2878 FOUNTAIN STREET
626-1/3/149 (North side)
20/06/85 No.21

GV II

House, later Liberal Club now flats. 1755, converted 1990s.
Incised stucco on brick; graduated Lakeland slate roof
(Palladian style).
3 storeys and attic, 4 windows and a projecting 2-storey,
2-bay left entrance extension. C20 door in right bay. Renewed
windows in original openings with raised surrounds and stone
sills; the first floor is a piano nobile with longer windows
and a sill band. Eaves cornice and full-width pediment with
recessed lunette in tympanum. Flagpole on corbel below eaves.
Entrance section has a tall round arch, with patterned
ironwork in head and steps up to deeply-recessed original
door, under a tiny lunette in right bay. C20 garage doors
under two C20 pivoted windows in left bay.
INTERIOR: now converted to flats but noted as retaining many
C18 features including staircase, chimney-pieces, many 6-panel
doors and a half-domed elliptical alcove with rich mouldings.

Listing NGR: SD2877478489

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655820

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living