Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/75 (North side) 09/07/74 Nos.46 AND 48 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET No.48)

GV II

Pair of houses, now one shop. Mid C18, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with gable chimney stacks which have brick caps. Double-depth plan extended to the rear. 3 storeys over cellars, and 4 bays with chamfered quoins on the upper floors and an eaves cornice. The ground floor was altered c1990 and has a timber shop front with cornice and with glazed doorways to each side. The windows in the upper floors have raised plain surrounds, the lintels of those on the second floor are linked into a band which forms the frieze of the eaves cornice. All the surrounds appear to have been enlarged by lowering their sills. The windows are glazing bar sashes inserted c1990. INTERIOR: the dogleg open-stringed staircase between the front and back rooms of No.48 remains between 1st and 2nd floors.

Listing NGR: SD4766161837

External Links

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