Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE MARKET STREET
1685-1/7/157 (North side)
18/02/70 Nos.22 AND 24
Blue Anchor Public House (part) and
rear building on Lawson's Yard
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET STREET
(North side)
No.22
including rear building on Lawson's
Yard)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET STREET
No.24)

GV II

House, now shops and an annexe to the Blue Anchor Public House
(qv) c1700, restored 1990. Sandstone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Slate roof with a gable stack to the right.
3 storeys above a cellar and 4 bays, with a rear wing forming
an L-shaped plan.
The ground floor has timber shop fronts of 1990. On the first
floor are rebated and chamfered cross windows, and on the
second floor 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows.
All date from 1990, but are accurate replicas of the original
windows, based on fragments of stonework found when the render
was removed from the wall.
The rear wing to the right gives on to Lawson's Yard, which
now has a glazed roof; it is approached through a doorway to
the left of the shop fronts. Bays 1-4 formed a separate house
with the original doorway in bay 3, now a window, and replaced
by a doorway in bay 2. Bays 5-7 were the rear wing of the
house on Market Street which had a back door in bay 5, now a
window. All the doorways and windows on the ground and first
floors have moulded architraves. The second-floor windows have
2 lights with chamfered jambs and mullions and, in some cases,
diamond fixed lights.
INTERIOR: the house on Market Street has in its rear wing an
open-well staircase with closed and panelled strings, fluted
square newel posts with straight handrails of heavy
cross-section (cf No.44 Church Street (qv)) supported by 2
fluted balusters per tread. The house on Lawson's Yard has a
closed-string staircase running parallel to the yard in single
flights with 2 fluted balusters per tread.
This pair of houses is the unique survivor of what must have
been a fairly common type in Georgian Lancaster; as such they
are important both to the history and the townscape.
No.22 and rear building on Lawson's Yard were listed 17.6.87.

Listing NGR: SD4766661728

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585849

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)