Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW VICTORIA ROAD
708-1/4/143 (South West side)
06/05/76 Victoria Park Hotel

II

Hotel. c1900. By Watson and Curry of Newcastle (plan). Red
brick, the upper storey pebbledashed, red sandstone dressings;
graduated slate roof.
2 storeys and attic, 8 bays with 5-bay right return to Oxford
Street and 3:3 bay left return to Kendal Street.
Chamfered plinth. Pilasters support basket arch to each bay;
ashlar imposts, hoodmoulds and ashlar keystones. Main entrance
to bay 6 has door and side-lights in architraves under
swan-neck pediment and cartouche; covering this is a
stained-glass canopy supported by cast-iron columns on
corniced, ashlar piers; arched front panel has tracery, radial
glazing bars and torchere finial; curved roof with fishscale
panels to each side. Bay 2 has panelled door and decorative
overlight in quoined surround with cornice on brackets; other
bays have transomed 3-light casements; continuous cornice.
1st floor: sashes (with glazing bars to their upper frames) in
architraves with moulded sills; bays 3 & 6 have mullioned
3-light windows flanked by corbelled pilaster strips; bays 1 &
8 have single sashes whilst the remaining bays have paired
sashes. Angled corner to right with 3-sided window in same
style. Rectangular-section fallpipes; rain-water heads in the
form of winged beasts.
Eaves cornice above which bays 3 & 6 rise as half-timbered
gables each with 2-light casement with glazing bars. Between
the gables are three 3-light dormers with flat roofs; matching
dormers to bays 2 & 7. Angled corner rises as an octagonal
turret having cornice and scalloped parapet with ball finials;
recessed wooden cupola with weathervane. Main roof is hipped
and has terracotta ridges and finials; tall, corniced ridge
stacks and front-slope stack between bays 7 & 8.
Rear (facing walled garden): 5-bay loggia with slender
cast-iron columns and ornate spandrels; 5 blind basket arches
to wall on right.
Right return: 2-light windows within round arches; 'BILLIARD
ROOM' and 'SMOKE ROOM' etched on glass. 2-bay shaped gable on
right has scrolled supporters with ball finials and central
stack with terracotta panel depicting plant in vase. Left
return: 3 bays as front; 3 later bays of 3 storeys with
vehicle entrance having keyed, round arch.
INTERIOR: dining-room ceiling has panels and ribbons.
Cast-iron spiral staircase rises from kitchen to attic.
Plans are dated 1898 and differ slightly: the glazed canopy
and 3-bay addition to left return are not shown; the octagonal
turret treatment differs. The drawing is by Watson and Curry;
the application (1899) by Curry and Davidson.
(Building Plans Register: 1899-: 4031).

Listing NGR: SD2032370484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513584

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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