Conservative Club, Carnforth

CARNFORTH.—The designs of Mr. Robert Walker, architect, Windermere, have been adopted by the directors of the proposed Conservative Club, Lancs., out of 16 sets sent in. [Building News 25 March 1887 page 454]

CARNFORTH.—For Conservative club and shops at Carnforth.
Mr. R. Walker, Windermere, architect and surveyor
Walling, etc., T Pool, Carnforth; Carpenter and joiner, D Wilson, Carnforth; Plasterer's work, W J Cross, Morecambe; Plumbing, painting, and glazing, J Walmsley, Carnforth.
Building News 20 May 1877 page 782 – tenders

CARNFORTH.—A new Conservative Club has just been completed at Carnforth. It is built In a central position adjoining the new Post Office. The style adopted is a free treatment of Classic. The ground floor has a central entrance 6 feet wide, laid with ornamental tiles, and screened off with handsome swing doors, having lead quarries in the upper part. There is a good lock-up shop on each side of the entrance, having a large parlour or workroom behind, with access to the cellar beneath. The first floor contains a handsome reading room to the front, 34 feet by 20 feet and having two projecting bay windows and a central French casement, with a Royal coat of arms in the upper part, the gift of Messrs. Shrigley and Hunt, of Lancaster, who did all the lead glazing required in their usual admirable manner. Behind the reading-room there is a good smoking-room, lavatory, bathroom, and WC. The second floor has a billiard-room for two tables, 34 feet by 24 feet, having top north lights, recreation, and refreshment room, with lift from basement. The sub-basement contains cellars for lock-up shops, kitchen, scullery, pantry, bedroom, and cellar for the use of the caretaker; and the basement has two large cellars for storage purposes, wash-house, coal-place, The front is built with Yorkshire shoddies in random courses and freestone dressings, and the roofs are covered with green Westmoreland slates. The whole of the work has been carried out by local contractors from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Walker, M.S.A., architect and surveyor, Windermere, who won the first place in a public competition. [Building News 13 April 1888 page 551]

Reference        Building News 25 March 1887 page 454
Reference        Building News 20 May 1877 page 782 – tenders
Reference        Building News 13 April 1888 page 551