Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET
708-1/12/61 (South West side)
06/05/76 Hotel Majestic
(Formerly Listed as:
DUKE STREET
(South West side)
Majestic Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Dated 'HT 1904', altered. By JY McIntosh. For Henry
Tyson (plan). Red brick with red ashlar sandstone to ground
floor and to dressings, graduated slate roof.
3 storeys with attic, 2:3:3:2 bays; bays 1 and 2 flat the rest
set on curve, outer bays broader. Chamfered plinth,
channel-rusticated ground floor; principal bay divisions have
3-storey pilasters.
Ground floor: ashlar doorcase to bay 3 (now a window) has
archivolt and Jacobean panels above the cornice; simpler
doorcase to bay 9 with panelled double doors and segmental
pediment raised on 3 short pilasters; a 3rd doorway to bay 1
(also now a window) has dentilled cornice and pedimented niche
over. Moulded limestone sills linked by band; later casements
in bolection-moulded architraves with pulvinated friezes and
segmental pediments; canopied entrance formed through bay-2
windows.
Cornice forms sills to 1st-floor windows and from it rise
2-storey pilasters between the central bays. Unequally-hung
sashes with lintels and cornices; outer bays have 3-light
mullioned windows in corniced architraves. Sunken apron panels
to shorter, 2nd-floor windows; outer windows with pilaster
mullions. Principal-pilaster capitals carved with volutes and
Edwardian masks; date to centre. 2nd-floor cornice breaks
forward over all pilasters and from it, over each end, rise
stylised Flemish gables each with large scrolled supports,
windows on 2 levels and 2 pilasters supporting a segmental
pediment. Ashlar balustrade to centre; behind are 6 gabled
roof dormers and a central brick stack with panelled sides;
matching ridge stack behind left gable.
Various plans submitted for this building from 1901-1903.
Dormers shown as round-headed in early C20 photograph.
(Building Plans Register: 1903-: 4716; Trescatheric B: Barrow
in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL
106).

Listing NGR: SD1988269024

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Majestic Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20876735

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas