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30, Market Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Lancaster, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.049 / 54°2'56"N

Longitude: -2.8011 / 2°48'3"W

OS Eastings: 347648

OS Northings: 461749

OS Grid: SD476617

Mapcode National: GBR 8PWM.C8

Mapcode Global: WH846.YHB9

Plus Code: 9C6V25XX+JH

Entry Name: 30, Market Street

Listing Date: 13 March 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298343

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383195

ID on this website: 101298343

Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Electoral Ward/Division: Castle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lancaster

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lancaster St Mary with St John and St Anne

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


LANCASTER

SD4761NE MARKET STREET 1685-1/7/161 (North side) No.30

GV II

Council offices, now shop. c1880, altered late C20. Built as the Borough Council's Gas and Rates Office. Italianate style. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof and tall gable chimney stacks with bracketed cornices. Deep rectangular plan, with the entrance to Chancery Lane on the left. 2 tall storeys above a cellar, and 4 narrow bays. The ground floor has been altered by the insertion of a shop front. The first-floor windows have round heads and are set under moulded round arches carried on Corinthianesque pilasters. These stand on a moulded band, and above is a dentilled cornice which, in front of its blocking course, carries a round-headed aedicule with short pink granite columns with Corinthianesque capitals, which contains the coat of arms of the former Borough of Lancaster. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD4764861749

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