Description

SD2068NW
708-1/14/57

BARROW IN FURNESS
DUKE STREET
(North East side)
Alfred Barrow School, centre block

II

School. 1888. By JY McIntosh. Red brick with ashlar sandstone
dressings, graduated slate roof. U-shaped plan having gabled
crosswings and double-depth centre; in Renaissance style.
2 storeys with half-basement; 1:4:1 bays. Basement has
pedimented central doorway beneath offset band. Upper floors
have architraved cross-windows linked by continuous sill and
transom bands and by mid-floor sunken panels with ribbons,
swags and flowers carved in relief; modillioned eaves cornice.
Wings have fielded apron panels to mullioned and transomed
3-light windows in moulded surrounds with ballflower ornament;
corbel tables beneath mid-floor panels that read 'HIGHER GRADE
SCHOOL'; hoodmould over 1st-floor windows. Gables have a
quatrefoil in keyed oculus, shaped kneelers moulded copings
and finials (that to front left missing); terracotta ridge
cresting.
Short right return of left wing has panelled door under basket
arch with hoodmould. Left return of same wing: transomed 1-
and 2-light windows; doorway on right has panelled double
doors in pilastered and pedimented surround with carved panel
and word 'COOKERY' in tympanum. Lombard frieze at eaves.
INTERIOR: central part has transverse partition wall formed by
3-bay arcade of moulded brick basket arches with consoles on
the keystones; within are original part-glazed partitions and
classroom doors beneath wooden tracery; former hall at front
has later divisions. Scheme repeated on 1st floor, the arches
obscured by false ceiling.
Foundation stone (beneath front-left window) laid by Lady
Cavendish on 11.8.1888; when completed provided for the higher
education of up to 1,200 pupils. Later additions not of
special interest.

Listing NGR: SD2002568921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571917

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)