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

• Wikidata Q26655820

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)