Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/141 (West side) 18/02/70 Nos.40 AND 42 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.40) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.42)

GV II

House, now shop and flats. Mid C18, altered C19. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. Composition tile roof, brick chimney stacks. Double-depth 2-unit plan. 3 storeys and 4 bays, with cellar to the right-hand half, formerly symmetrical. The ground floor has a central doorway with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, and segmental pediment on carved brackets, to the left, an inserted shop window and doorway under a fascia and blind-box, and to the right, a shuttered cellar opening and a pair of windows. Both upper floors have 4 windows similarly arranged in pairs, and all these windows have moulded architraves, and are sashed without glazing bars. Moulded cornice, gable chimney stacks. To rear a central giant elliptical-arched stair-window with keystone, now mostly blocked but with a 2-light window on each floor.

Listing NGR: SD4760861524

External Links

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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