Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW ABBEY ROAD
708-1/4/9 (South East side)
06/05/76 No.298
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY ROAD
Lodge to Crosslands)

II

Lodge. c1878. By Alfred Swan. For JT Smith (plans). Snecked,
rock-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings; green slate
roof. 1-storey and attic; compact T-shaped plan with side wing
on left and porch to rear. Right return (facing drive to
Crosslands, Rating Lane, qv): chamfered plinth; 2-light
mullioned window having casements with horizontal glazing bars
and transom lights; continuous dripmould. Oversailing eaves
broken by half-dormer with shorter 2-light window beneath
hipped roof; main roof also hipped and with terracotta ridges
and finials. Abbey Road front: rectangular bay window under
catslide roof projection; side wing to left has half dormer
with hipped roof; truncated stack rises from roof valley.
Rear: porch is open-sided with pointed wooden arches and
lean-to roof; square-headed door within. JT Smith managed the
Barrow Haematite Iron and Steel Company. Drawings survive;
approved 1878.
(Building Plans Register: 1878-: NO.1259).

Listing NGR: SD2116671428

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492352

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Nottinghamshire (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)