Description

LANCASTER

SD4761SE QUEEN SQUARE 1685-1/8/233 (West side) 22/12/53 No.1

GV II

House, now doctors' surgery. Late C18, altered C19 and restored c1980. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof. Double-depth plan. A symmetrical composition of 2 storeys above cellars and 5 bays, with a cornice and with a parapet with coping. The windows are sashed without glazing bars and have plain reveals and projecting sills. The cellar openings are mostly glazed. The doorway has a lugged stone architrave and a pediment. The overlight has glazing bars with a curved intersecting design, and the door has 6 raised and fielded panels. It is approached up 4 steps with nosings and with iron railings. Chimneys on gables, the left-hand one of brick and the right-hand one rendered. INTERIOR: the arch between the front hall and the stair hall springs from fluted Doric pilasters. The dogleg stair has an open string, 3 turned balusters per tread, turned newels, a ramped handrail, and terminates with a cur-tail.

Listing NGR: SD4760661477

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