Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE
1685-1/7/105 (West side)
09/07/74 Nos.17 AND 18
(Formerly Listed as:
DALTON SQUARE
Nos.15-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops. c1800, altered C20. Sandstone
ashlar with slate roof and gable stacks. Double-depth plan
with the doorways of each house placed together in the central
bays, but with the rear wings to the sides.
3 storeys above cellars, and 2 bays in each house with coupled
doorways, and coupled windows in the centre of the first and
second floors. The ground floor of both houses has been
altered by the insertion of recent shop fronts, but the
doorways remain with C20 doors of 6 raised and fielded panels.
All the windows have plain reveals. No.18, to the right, has
fixed window frames with glazing bars on the first floor and
top-hung casements with glazing bars on the second floor.
No.17 has glazing bar sashes. On the first floor the
right-hand window has been removed (probably in the C19) and
replaced by a single tripartite window with stone mullions.
INTERIOR: both doorways now open into a shared entrance lobby.
No.17 has a dogleg open-string staircase with scrolled
brackets, 2 stick balusters per tread, and a moulded, ramped
mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: SD4782661638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505455

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)