Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE JAMES STREET
1685-1/7/136 Slip Inn
03/02/87

II

Public house. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations.
Roughcast rubble with painted ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
The building was extended to the rear in the late 1970s.
Main building of 3 storeys above cellars and 3 bays. Windows
are sashed in painted raised stone surrounds. The doorway, in
the left-hand bay with a 3rd ground-floor window to its left,
has a painted stone surround and 6-panel door. The 2nd floor
windows are half-height. Below the 2 right-hand ground-floor
windows are low cellar openings. 4 corbel brackets for a
timber gutter which is now replaced. Coped gable with kneelers
and ridge stack to right. To the left is a lower 2-storey
5-bay wing with a central doorway and similar features, once
probably a separate house. It has a ridge chimney at the left,
and a chimney rising from the front wall at the right at the
junction with the main building.
INTERIOR: ground floor of main building altered, with all
internal walls demolished.
The last of Lancaster's alleyway inns and the only surviving
building of James Street.

Listing NGR: SD4767861662

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585879

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)