Dalton Town with Newton is a civil parish in the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The parish contains the market town of Dalton-in-Furness, the hamlet of Newton and surrounding countryside. The civil parish contains 70 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Most of the listed buildings are houses and shops in or near the centre of the town. The oldest listed building is Dalton Castle, a free-standing tower in the centre of the town. Other listed buildings include a country house and associated structures, a farm and farm buildings, public houses, churches, a lime kiln, a pinfold, a market cross, public buildings, schools, a bank, and a war memorial.
A free-standing rectangular tower in limestone with sandstone dressings, on a chamferedplinth, with large quoins, and a slate roof. It is thought to have been built as a courthouse and bailiff's residence. It was remodelled in about 1704, and in 1856 it was converted into a Masonic lodge by E. G. Paley for the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. The roof was replaced in 1907, and in 1965 it was given to the National Trust. In the south wall there is a large doorway and a four-light window, the west wall has a smaller doorway, arrow slits, and two two-light windows, on the north side are two two-light windows, one square-headed and the other with a pointed head, and the east side contains a small square-headed window, a blocked mullioned window and, at a higher level, two two-light windows with pointed heads. At the top of the tower is a parapet with slits, a gargoyle, and on the corners are eroded figures. The tower is also a scheduled monument.[2][3][4]
A small house with a cruck-framed core that was extended in the early 19th century. It is pebbledashed and has a roof of slate and tile. There are two storeys and three bays, and a single-bay extension to the left that is taller and protrudes forward. The windows are sashes, and in the extension there is a square-headed vehicle entrance.[5]
The farmhouse was altered in the 19th century. It is in stuccoed stone with a slate roof. There are two storeys with an attic and three bays, a rear wing at the right, a three-storey stair projection, and a lean-to on the right. There is a conservatory in front of the central doorway, which has an ashlar surround and a cornice on consoles. The windows are sashes.[6]
The public house was altered in the early 19th century. It is roughcast, and has two storeys, three bays, and a rear wing. In the ground floor is a square-headed carriage entrance to the left and a square-headed doorway. The windows in the left bay are sashes, and in the other two bays they are casements.[7]
This originated as the Ship Hotel, and has been converted into a house and a cottage. It is pebbledashed with a slate roof, and has two storeys, three bays, and a rear wing. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a square-headed opening, above which is a datestone with a carved horseshoe.[8]
A roughcast stone house with a roof of tile and slate, it has two storeys and two bays. The windows are casements, and to the left is a square-headed carriage entrance.[9]
The house was altered in the early 19th century. It is pebbledashed with a roof of slate and tile. There are two storeys and an attic, four bays, and a rear wing. The doorway has Doric columns and a broken pediment. In the left bay is a passage opening, and the windows are sashes. Enclosing the front garden is a limestone wall, dwarf in the centre with railings, and higher at the sides with coping and returning to join the house. The wall contains two square gate piers.[12]
Originally one house, then three cottages, and later two houses, the buildings are roughcast with a slate roof. They have two storeys, and each current house has two bays. Nos. 22 and 24 have two doorways under a shared canopy on brackets, and casement windows. No. 26 on the left has one doorway with a canopy on brackets, and sash windows.[13]
A small rendered house with a slate roof, two storeys, and two bays. The central doorway has a porch with a gabled hood on brackets. The windows in the ground floor are three-light casements, and in the upper floor they are sashes.[14]
A rendered house with corner pilasters and a roof of slate and tile. It has two storeys and two bays. The doorway has a hood on shaped brackets, to the right is a casement window, and in the upper floor are two sash windows; all the windows have raised surrounds. At the rear is a tall stair window.[15]
Originally a house, then an inn, and later divided into three dwellings. It is roughcast over limestone with corner pilasters, and has a roof of tile and slate. There are two storeys with an attic, two bays, and a taller rear wing. The doorway has a shaped surround, to the right is a casement window, and to the left is a round-arched carriage entrance. The windows in the upper floor and attic are sashes.[16]
The wall bounds the front garden to the east of the hall. It is in limestone with sandstonecopings, about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, and has an irregular plan, including quadrants.[17]
Originally a row of three houses, later shops, that are stuccoed over stone, and have roofs of slate and tile. Each shop has two storeys and two bays. No. 19 is probably the earliest, and is lower than the others, It has a doorway and a plate glass window in the ground floor, and casement windows above. No. 20 to the right has two shop windows flanked by doorways in the ground floor, and a sash window and a casement window above. No. 18 on the left has a shop window with an integral doorway and cornice, and sash windows in the upper floor.[18]
A row of five stone cottages with slate roofs, partly pebbledashed and partly rendered, in two storeys. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements. Nos. 3, 4 and 5 have one bay each, and Nos. 1 and 2 have two bays. No. 5 has a doorway with an architrave, a fanlight, and a hood on brackets, Nos. 4 and 3 have bow windows in the ground floor, and No. 2 has a vehicle entrance. No. 1 is taller and later, and has a door with a sidelight.[20]
A stuccoed house with a tile roof, in two storeys and three bays. The doorway has an architrave and a cornice on consoles, and there is a carriage entrance with a segmental arch in the left bay. The windows are sashes.[22]
A shop, roughcast over stone, with a slate roof, two storeys, and one bay. On the ground floor are a doorway and a 19th-century shop window with pilasters and a cornice, and in the upper floor is a sash window.[23]
Originally one house, later divided into two shops, the building is in stuccoed stone with a slate roof. There are two storeys with an attic, and three bays. In the ground floor is a passage entry, a shop front with a moulded sill, pilasters and a cornice. This is flanked by doors, and to the right is a window converted from a shop window. In the upper floor are casement windows.[24]
A row of three cottages, partly roughcast and partly stuccoed, with a green slate roof. They have two storeys, and each cottage has one bay. Most of the windows are casements, and there is one sash window.[29]
A row of three houses, partly rendered and partly roughcast, with slate roofs. Each house has two storeys and two bays. No. 16 has a doorway and sash windows, the ground floor window having three lights. No. 18 has a central doorway with a chamfered surround and a fanlight, with sash windows on the right and a 2-storey bay window to the left. No. 20 has a central porch with a segmentally-arched carriage entrance to the right, a sash window to the left, and casement windows in the upper floor.[30]
A row of two shops and a house in stuccoed stone and with a slate roof. There are two storeys, and each building has one bays. The outer buildings have shop fronts, and the house in the centre has a recessed doorway with a stone surround and a window with wooden pilasters and a cornice. In the upper floor of No. 152 is a sash window, and in the other buildings are casement windows.[31]
Originally a farmhouse and a barn, later converted into two interlocking houses, both parts roughcast and with slate roofs. Bank House has two storeys with an attic, and two bays. The doorway has a moulded hood carried on two Doric columns, above which is a cantedbay window. To the left of the doorway is another canted bay window, the other windows being sashes. Church House to the left has two storeys, a door with sidelights, and casement windows.[32]
A group of farm buildings in limestone with quoins and slate roofs. They form an L-shaped plan, and consist of a one-storey four-bay barn, a five-bay bank barn with a cow house beneath, and a barn of three bays with a half-basement. The openings include wagon entrances, windows, doorways and ventilation holes. Other features include copedgables and a weathervane.[33]
The wall encloses the garden to the south and west of Elliscale Farmhouse. It is in limestone and has rough slab coping. The north part contains six bee boles, and opposite the door of the farmhouse are gate piers. At the southwest corner the wall is attached to a farm building that is also in limestone, and has quoins, a slate roof, two storeys, and three bays.[34]
The pinfold is in limestone, and consists of a circular enclosure with triangular copings, about 10 metres (33 ft) in diameter and between 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in height. There is an opening on the west side with a gatepost and an iron gate.[35]
The gravestone is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church and commemorates the portrait painter George Romney. It consists of a slate slab on a mouldedplinth. There is a Latin inscription on the slab, and on the plinth is an inscription in English recording the restoration of the gravestone in 1895.[2][36]
A row of three houses, rendered with slate roofs, in two storeys. Nos. 13 and 14 have two bays, and No. 15 has three bays and a rear wing. No. 14 has a doorway with an architrave, a fanlight, and a cornice on consoles. The windows in Nos. 13 and 14 are sashes, those in the ground floor having three lights with pilasters and cornices. The doorway to No. 15 has a cornice, and the windows at the front and in the rear wing are casements.[37]
The house is in rendered stone, and it has a tile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has a chamfered surround, and the sash windows have projecting sills and raised surrounds.[39]
A row of two houses and a shop, stuccoed, with a roof of slate and tile, each building having two storeys and an attic. No. 47 has one bay, and the others have two bays each. No. 47 has a doorway, sash windows, and a gabled roof dormer, and No. 49 also has a doorway and sash windows, and a bay window and a four-light dormer. No. 51 is a shop with a passage door on the left, and an ornate cast iron shop front that includes arcaded panels, columns with compositecapitals, pierced spandrels, and cresting. Above are casement windows and a full-length dormer.[40]
Originally a bank, later a shop, it is stuccoed, with a slate roof, two storeys, two bays, and a rear wing. On the ground floor are a side passage with a basket arch, a doorway with a stone architrave, and a three-light sash window with mullions in the form of small columns. In the upper floor are plain sash windows.[41]
Originally two cottages, later converted into one house, it is stuccoed with a tiled roof. There are two storeys and three bays. On the front is a cantedbay window flanked by doorways with hoods. The windows are sashes, one with a segmental head.[43]
A pair of square gate piers that flank the north entrance to the garden of the hall. They are in sandstone, and each pier has a rusticated shaft, standing on an upswept pedestal, and at the top has a cornice and a ball finial.[45]
A row of three houses and a stable in limestone. The houses are roughcast with two storeys. Nos.3 and 4 have sash windows, and doors with fanlights, No. 3 also has a canopy. No. 2 is set back and earlier, and has one casement window in the ground floor, the others being sashes, and a gableddormer. The stable has large quoins, and a casement window and a doorway with sandstone arches.[46]
A row of three houses and a shop, stuccoed with slate roofs. Each building has two storeys and one bay. The doorways are on the right, that of No. 8 having a fanlight. The ground floor of No. 2 has an enlarged window, and in the ground floor of No. 6 is a shop window; all the other windows are sashes.[47]
Originally a house and later used as a club, it is in roughcastlimestone on a plinth, with a string course and a slate roof. It has a central block with two storeys and three bays and side wings of one storey and one bay. Four steps lead up to a central doorway with a Doric porch. The windows are sashes.[48]
The vicarage and cottage are roughcast with a green slate roof, and have two storeys and attics. The vicarage has three bays, and a central porch with Doric columns and a doorway with a fanlight and a broken pediment. To the right is a cantedbay window, and the other windows are sashes. The cottage to the left projects forward, it has one bay, and also has sash windows. The garden wall is low, it has a limestone end pier at the right, and a pair of octagonal gate piers opposite the porch.[49]
A stuccoed public house with quoins and a hippedslate roof, standing on a corner site. The central part has three storeys, with two bays on Queen Street, three bays on Ulverston Road, and a two-storey two-bay extension. There is an angled corner entrance with a patterned lintel. The windows are sashes, those in the lower two floors with wedge lintels.[51]
The chapel is in limestone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It consists of a nave that has a rounded east apse with a semi-conical roof, and a gabled wing and a loggia to the west. On the east gable is a bellcote.[54]
The house and barn have slate roofs. The house is pebbledashed, in two storeys, with three bays and a rear wing. The central doorway has an architrave, a fanlight, and a cornice on consoles, to the left is a cantedbay window with a cornice, and to the right is a three-light window. In the upper floor the windows have cornices on consoles; all the windows are sashes. The barn, lower and to the right, is in limestonerubble, and contains a cart entrance and a doorway, both with segmental heads. Enclosing the front garden is a dwarf wall with limestone corner piers.[56]
The church is stuccoed with quoins, and has a slate roof. There is a single tall storey with a half-basement, an entrance front of three bays, and four bays on the sides. On the front is a gabled porch with a round-arched window and doors on the sides, and above it is a blocked round-arched window and a date plaque. Along the sides is a sill band and round-arched windows. There are railings around the basement area, steps leading down to doors, and sash windows in the half-basement.[58]
The cross and the benches are in limestone. The cross is on the site of an earlier cross, and consists of a chamfered square column with a plain cross. It has a base of three steps and stands on a platform of four steps. The benches are two quadrants with slab pillars and tilted tops, originally used for the sale of fish. They are surrounded by a pebble pavement.[59]
A rendered house on a corner site, with sandstone dressings including quoins, a slate roof, and three storeys. There are two bays on Chapel Street, three on Fell Croft, and a two-storey, two-bay extension beyond. All the windows are sashes, and each bay in the main block is gabled with a half-dormer. The round-headed doorways on each front have stone surrounds, and a fanlight with an archivolt and a rusticatedkeystone.[61]
The church was designed by Paley and Austin in Decorated style, and replaced the previous church on the site. It is in sandstone with a green slate roof on a chamferedplinth, and consists of a nave, aisles, north and south porches, a chancel with a north vestry and a south chapel, and a tower at the west end of the nave. The tower has three stages, an embattledparapet, and an octagonal stair turret on the southwest corner rising higher than the tower. There is chequerwork decoration on the parapets, over the porches, and above the east and west windows.[64][65]
The offices are in limestone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays. The left bay is roofed as a cross-wing, it has a large window in the upper floor, and a gable with ball finials and an obelisk. On the roof is a clock tower with an iron balustrade, an ogee roof, and a weathervane. The second bay contains the main entrance, with a moulded surround, a fanlight, a carved frieze, and a dentilledcornice. Above it is a casement window with an inscribed frieze, and a Flemish gable. The right three bays are gabled and contain three-light windows with mullions and sashes. In the right bay is a former vehicle entrance with a basket arch.[2][66]
The buildings originated as a house and stables for a fire station, and are in limestone with slate roofs. Both have two storeys, and three bays, a door with a fanlight, and casement windows. The stables, set forward to the left, also have a rectangular hatch in the upper floor flanked by pitching holes in the form of oculi.[67]
Originally a Cooperative shop, later used for other purposes, it is in limestone with sandstone dressings, quoins, a dentilledeavescornice, and a slate roof. It stands on a corner site, it has two storeys, and there are three bays on Chapel Street, four on Nelson Street, and one on the corner between them. The corner bay, originally a doorway, has been converted into a window, and has an architrave, a datestone flanked by pilasters, and a dentilled segmental pediment. At the top of the bay are ball finials. There are entrances on both streets, each with an architrave, and above them are two oculi with pilasters and a dentilled cornice, and a shaped gable. The building also has shop windows containing stained gloss.[68]
The bank and offices are in limestone with slate roofs. The bank, on a corner site, has two storeys with attics, two bays on each front, and a bay on the corner. The entrance in the corner bay has a round-headed fanlight, above which is a balustraded balcony on carved corbels. At the top of the bay is a pedimented shield. The windows are sashes; in the ground floor they are tripartite with segmental heads, in the middle floor they have flat arches with cornices and pedimented keystones, and in the top floor they are in half-dormers and have cornices. The offices at the rear have two storeys, and contain sash windows.[70]
The Sunday school has since been used for other purposes. It is in limestone with red sandstone dressings on a chamferedplinth, with quoins, and a slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and ventilators. There is one storeys and a front of three bays, with a wing at the rear. The central doorway has a quoined surround and a shouldered lintel, and above it is an inscribed plaque. Flanking the door ware quoined cross-windows.[71]
The drinking fountain commemorates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is in cast iron on a stone plinth. Four fluted columns support an umbrella-like pierced canopy with a crown finial. The structure is embellished with inscriptions and decorations, including dragons at the corners, and roundels, one depicting the queen, and with herons in the others. Inside the canopy is a fountain with a broad bowl on a clustered column.[2][72]
The war memorial is in Portland stone, and consists of a square chamfered and tapering column on a square plinth with diagonal buttresses. On the top is a mouldedcapital with a carved eternal flame. Plaques carry the names of those lost in the two world wars, and there are bronze swords and an inscription on the shaft.[75]
