Description

LANCASTER

SD4761SE QUEEN STREET
1685-1/8/242 (West side)
22/12/53 No.12

GV II

House, now annexe to girls' grammar school. Late C18, altered
late C19. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses with hipped slate
roof.
The facade is symmetrical, of 2 storeys above cellars and 2
bays, with raised quoins, a cornice, and a parapet with
coping. The windows, which are now sashed, have tripartite
stone surrounds with Tuscan pilaster jambs and engaged
baseless Tuscan columns as mullions. Below are tripartite
cellar openings with plain stone surrounds, the left-hand one
blocked. The entrance is now through a narrow single-storey
addition to the right which has a door architrave with a
bracketed cornice, below a cornice with blocking course; it
appears to be of late C19 date, the original entrance being in
the right-hand return wall. Chimneys to left and right.
INTERIOR: stair hall at left with an arched entrance with
fluted pilasters. The dogleg stair has a ramped mahogany
handrail, an open string, stick balusters, and a fluted square
lower newel.

Listing NGR: SD4759961392

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507553

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