Latitude: 54.0463 / 54°2'46"N
Longitude: -2.8017 / 2°48'6"W
OS Eastings: 347602
OS Northings: 461449
OS Grid: SD476614
Mapcode National: GBR 8PWN.77
Mapcode Global: WH846.YK0C
Plus Code: 9C6V25WX+G8
Entry Name: 4 and 6, Queen Street
Listing Date: 22 December 1953
Last Amended: 13 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1212567
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383272
Also known as: Lancaster Register Office
ID on this website: 101212567
Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1
County: Lancashire
District: Lancaster
Town: Lancaster
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lancaster
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Lancaster St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Building Register office
LANCASTER
SD4761SE QUEEN STREET
1685-1/8/240 (West side)
22/12/53 Nos.4 AND 6
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN STREET
(West side)
No.4)
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN STREET
(West side)
No.6)
GV II
House, now register office. Late C18, enlarged early C19,
altered late C19 and restored 1970s. Sandstone ashlar with
slate roof. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys above cellars. Main part of facade symmetrical, of 5
bays, with an eaves cornice below a timber gutter and with
glazing bar sash windows with plain reveals and projecting
sills. The cellar openings are now blocked. Above the doorway
is a cornice on fluted console brackets. The door is of 6
raised and fielded panels below a glazed panel. At the left is
an addition which has ashlar in narrower courses and a
2-storey canted bay window which contains glazing bar sashes
in plain stone surrounds. The left-hand gable is coped.
Chimney to left of the main house. The left-hand gable wall
includes a tall window with plain stone surround and round
head rising from first-floor level and with its upper part
blocked. To each side close to eaves level are blocked lunette
windows. Much of the rear wall appears to have been rebuilt in
the late C19 using stone in narrow courses and including a
2-storey bow.
INTERIOR: largely altered, but with an archway with fluted
pilaster jambs leading through to the rear stair hall. The
open-string dogleg stair has 3 turned balusters to each tread.
It terminates in a cur-tail and has turned newels and a ramped
handrail.
No.4 listed on 18.2.70.
Listing NGR: SD4760261449
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