Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET
1685-1/7/84 (South side)
No.73

GV II

House, now offices. c1700, altered early C19. Painted
roughcast over sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate
roof. Double-depth plan with a doorway and rear wing to the
right, and gable chimney stack to right.
3 storeys above cellars and 4 bays, with a low plinth and a
strongly-projecting eaves cornice projecting on plain timber
brackets. The doorway, in the 4th bay, has a prominent cornice
carried on pilasters, and a door with 12 raised and fielded
panels. All the windows have painted stone rebated and
chamfered jambs and heads, and are sashed with glazing bars,
giving 16 panes on the ground and first floors and 12 panes on
the second.
The rear elevation has an early C19 two-storey ashlar bow with
2 tall (15-pane) sashed windows on each floor.
INTERIOR: 2 staircases: a dogleg one rising from the rear of
the hallway, with an open string and stick balusters; and a
spiral stair rising from the front room. There are doorways
with moulded wooden architraves, shutters at the ground-floor
front windows, and the drawing room at the back has an early
C19 fireplace with carved palmettes.

Listing NGR: SD4753361851

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585909

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas