Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/80 (South side) 09/07/74 No.65

GV II

House, now offices and flat. c1780, altered C19. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof and gable chimney stacks, with brick cap to the left and brick and stone cap to the right. L-plan, double-depth front block and rear wing to the left. 3 storeys above cellars, with a low plinth and an eaves cornice, and 3 bays with a doorway in the left-hand bay. This has 3 steps, pilaster jambs with an open pediment on fluted consoles, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The door has 9 raised and fielded panels. All the windows have plain reveals, raised sills, and sashes: those on the ground floor have no glazing bars, while those on the first and second floors have 12 and 9 panes respectively. INTERIOR: dogleg open-string staircase with 2 stick balusters per tread and a ramped mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: SD4755761845

External Links

• Wikidata Q26505350

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)