Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 CHURCH STREET, Dalton In Furness
708-1/11/165 (North side)
06/05/76 Nos.5 AND 5A
Bank House (5) and Church House (5A)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Dalton
(North side)
Nos.1-6 (Consecutive))

GV II

2 houses formerly farmhouse and attached barn (Walton). Late
C18-early C19, altered C19 and C20. Roughcast over stone,
plain and graduated slate roofs. Bank House (No.5): 2 storeys
and attic, 2 windows to 1st floor; No.5A on left has 2 storeys
and 2 windows to 1st floor. Bank House: doorway on left with
part-glazed, 6-panel door under moulded stone hood on Doric
columns; two 4-pane sashes to right have projecting sills and
raised surrounds; canted bay window to left of doorway. 1st
floor: over door is a C20 canted bay window with plain sashes
and glazed roof; 16-pane sash on right. Altered attic windows
in gabled half-dormers. Limestone end stacks. No.5A: C20 door
with sidelights flanked, on left, by large C20 casement with
arched lights and, on right, by the bay window to Bank House.
1st floor: two C20 casements with glazing bars. End stack on
left and tall ridge stack. INTERIOR: Bank House has
basket-arched recess and round-arched limestone fireplace in
ground-floor room to front right; altered staircase. Both
shown in a photograph of 1896: Bank House then with original
windows to upper floors; No.5A with large bay window to left
of door. The columns said to have come from a building
fronting Dalton Castle. Large window of No.5A lit a billiard
room in annexe to Bank House. No.5A included for group value
and because of interlocked freehold.
(Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards:
Netherlands: 1983-: 45).

Listing NGR: SD2255473916

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492330

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