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Latitude: 54.0473 / 54°2'50"N
Longitude: -2.8032 / 2°48'11"W
OS Eastings: 347506
OS Northings: 461561
OS Grid: SD475615
Mapcode National: GBR 8PVM.XW
Mapcode Global: WH846.XJ9L
Plus Code: 9C6V25WW+WP
Entry Name: Former National School
Listing Date: 18 February 1970
Last Amended: 13 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290274
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383164
ID on this website: 101290274
Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1
County: Lancashire
District: 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 Mary with St John and St Anne
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: School building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/07/2019
SD4761NE
1685-1/7/130
LANCASTER
CAWTHORNE STREET (west side)
Nos 1-4, Former National School
(Formerly listed as Former National School, HIGH STREET, previously listed as: HIGH STREET Premises occupied by Perkodd Supplies Ltd (corner of Cawthorne Street))
18/02/70
GV
II
Former National school for girls. 1820, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar, which is smooth-faced on the facade to High Street and horizontally broached with chisel-drafted margins on side elevation. Slate roof.
Two low storeys with three bays under a pedimented gable to High Street and eight bays to the side (north) elevation. Ground floor, restored 1993 with central doorway and flanking twelve-pane windows. First floor with three low rectangular glazing bar sashes, within plain reveals and with projecting sills. Above a shallow string course, and in pediment, the inscription 'NATIONAL SCHOOL for GIRLS'. Above is a plaque reading: 'Built by Public Subscription A.D. 1820 to establish Order, check Vice and uphold Virtue.'
The right-hand return wall, facing Cawthorne Street and running down a slope, is of eight bays and has vertical rectangular windows; the two left-hand windows are blind and painted to resemble 30-pane windows with glazing bars, and the third window is glazed with 30 panes, but the remainder were altered c1987. To centre of facade at a lower level is a doorway with stone surround and plain pediment, set between two blocked windows.
Listing NGR: SD4750661561
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