Description

LANCASTER

SD4762 ST GEORGE'S QUAY 1685-1/3/275 (South West side) Victoria Corn Mill

GV II

Warehouses, now flats. Late C18, altered late C20. Squared and coursed sandstone with slate roofs and with ashlar dressings. Comprises 2 blocks of rectangular plan with their gables to the road. The left-hand block has a double-width facade with paired 4-storey loading slots which have stone surrounds and now have balconies and glazed doors. To each side is a bay of 3 storeys which has sashed windows with plain stone surrounds, the ground-floor ones within blocked doorways. At the left there are raised quoins at the 3rd-floor level only. At the right is a 3-storey 2-bay extension, at the corner of Pine Street, which has sashed windows in plain stone surrounds. The left-hand window on the ground floor is a late C20 reconstruction. To the left of the main warehouse is a late C20 two-storey addition which replaces houses which were demolished earlier in the century. Despite alteration, Victoria Corn Mill is part of an outstanding sequence of riverside warehouses surviving from the C18 port of Lancaster. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD4742362188

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)