Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE BROCK STREET 1685-1/7/21 (South side) Nos.18, 18A, 20 AND 20A

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops with flats above. Early C19. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses, with random rubble on sides and back. Slate roof. T-plan: double-depth front range with a 2-storey rear wing placed centrally, with tall square-headed staircase windows in each re-entrant angle. 3 storeys above cellars and 3 bays, the central bay above the paired doorways having glazed blind windows with glazing bars. The doorways and windows have plain stone surrounds. The ground floor has 2 shop fronts of c1900, each with a central doorway set back between flat shop windows whose inner corners have a quadrant-shaped plan. The shop windows have plate glass below and 2 rows of small square panes above. Between the shop fronts a flight of 7 stone steps with nosings leads up to the paired front door surround. The doors have 6 vertical panels, the lower ones fielded and the upper ones glazed. On the first floor the right-hand window has a 4-pane sash. The left-hand window has a tripartite stone surround with glazing bar sashes and is possibly a later C19 alteration. Both second floor windows have 9-pane sashes. HISTORY: Marked on Jonathan Binns' map of Lancaster, published in 1821.

Listing NGR: SD4781161558

External Links

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