Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE GREAT JOHN STREET
1685-1/7/122 (East side)
No.13

GV II

House. c1800, altered later C19. Sandstone ashlar with slate
roof, hipped on the right. Rectangular plan, with a central
entrance, on a shallow site on the corner of Dalton Square. 3
storeys and 3 bays, with a basement, expressed as a plinth and
built of larger stones, a moulded gutter cornice, and a large
chimney stack on the left-hand gable. The raised entrance is
approached by a flight of 6 steps with nosings, built parallel
to the wall and protected by iron-bar railings with a ramped
handrail and turned baluster standards with urn finials. The
doorway has plain reveals under a cornice on fluted consoles,
and narrow double doors with 3 panels each. The windows
including those in the one-bay return wall to Dalton Square
have plain reveals and are sashed without glazing bars. The 2
cellar openings are partly blocked and partly glazed.

Listing NGR: SD4785961682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585876

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