Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Oaklands | |
| parish |
Barrow-in-Furness borough,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD21647184 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD27
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | SD2171 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| OAKLANDS / / ABBEY ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388390 / SD2164771846 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Large house. 1913-14. For Vickers Ltd. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 windows to 1st floor. 2 parallel ranges offset so as to form re-entrant angles at each end. Garden front: large quoins; off-centre doorway flanked by single-storey 4x1-light bay windows with mullions, transoms and stained-glass transom lights beneath oversailing, embattled parapets with string courses. 1st floor has paired and single sashes with stained-glass upper lights; central stair-window with 2 transoms and stained glass. Chamfered eaves band, shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; corniced end stacks. Entrance front is less regular and has C20 door within broad segmental arch with keystone and hoodmould; 3-light mullioned windows above and corbelled lateral stack on left; various other windows, mostly plain sashes. In re-entrant angle on left is a small 3x1-light bay window in style of others. | ||
| INTERIOR: some oak panelling, oak staircase. | ||
| placename:- | Oaklands | |
| district:- | Barrow in Furness | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD21647184 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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