Ashburner House at Dowdales School Dalton Town with Newton, England
Listed Building Data
Ashburner House at Dowdales School has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1218468
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 20 December 1993
- Name
- ASHBURNER HOUSE AT DOWDALES SCHOOL
- Location
- ASHBURNER HOUSE AT DOWDALES SCHOOL, NELSON STREET
- Parish
- Dalton Town with Newton
- District
- Barrow-in-Furness
- County
- Cumbria
- Grid Reference
- SD 22743 74426
- Easting
- 322743.0000
- Northing
- 474426.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD2274 NELSON STREET, Dalton In Furness 708-1/10/203 (North side (off)) Ashburner House at Dowdales School
II
Large house, now part of school. c1895. For GB Ashburner (Walton). Coursed sandstone, with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys and attic with 3-storey tower to front-centre and 1-storey wing to rear; 3-bay front. Chamfered plinth; roll-moulded, quoined window surounds; oversailing, embattled parapets with gadrooned ball finials; ashlar gable copings with finials. Doorway set back on right has panelled double door with fanlight in ashlar doorcase having pilasters, basket arch, acanthus-carved keystone, paterae and dentilled dornice; small single-light window over has fleurons in its surround. Above the door, in angle with tower on left, is a corbelled vice which rises as a square turret; adjoining it a corbelled lateral stack with crenellated ashlar flues. Tower is set forward and has rounded corners: transomed 3-light window under relieving arch to ground floor; 2 plain sashes to 1st floor; 3-light mullioned window to 2nd floor; carved shield of arms in squared parapet. Bay 1 has a canted, 2-storey bay window of 1:3:1 lights the ground-floor lights transomed, embattled parapet with ball finials. Gabled roof dormer above has 3-light casement with glazing bars. Corbelled and corniced end stack on left. Rear: stair window with 2 transoms and king mullion. Contemporary 1-storey wing links to school buildings of 1928. Left return: 2 gables, that on left with 2-storey bay window. Right return: single gable with canted, 1-storey bay window. INTERIOR (not fully inspected): lobby doors with stained-glass panels depicting 2 flower bearers; pot plant etched on overlight. Stair-hall: patterned-tile floor; embossed dado; frieze with strapwork, masks and drapes; patterned ceiling panels. Staircase: turned balusters, octagonal newel with vase finial. Stair window with stained-glass panels depicting The Arts; multiple insets below show flora and fauna. Inherited financial burdens caused GB Ashburner to commit suicide before he could occupy the house. In 1897 it became the home of Mr Kellett, then manager of the Barrow Haematite Steel Co; became a school in 1928. (Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: PL 50).
Listing NGR: SD2274374426
