Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE GREAT JOHN STREET 1685-1/7/120 (East side) No.1

GV II

Includes: No.2 MOOR LANE. House, now club. c1800, with C19 and C20 alterations. Perhaps by Thomas Harrison. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with a coped gable. Rectangular double-fronted plan on a shallow site at the corner of Moor Lane, with a broad pedimented facade with a central entrance and gable chimney stack. 3 storeys above a basement expressed as a plinth, with an attic in the pediment, and 3 wide bays; sill bands on the first and second floors. The raised entrance is approached by a large double-sided flight of steps protected by railings; these have urn finials to the standards, and triple-leaf heads and wrought-iron scrollwork in the centre panels. The doorway and its narrow side windows have 2-centred arched heads, all set in a semi-elliptical arch framed by an open pediment carried on fluted consoles above pilasters. The ground floor has Venetian windows with a moulded architrave and a keystone. The upper floors have windows with plain reveals, those within the pediment being a low round-headed window between 2 lunettes. The 2-bay left-hand return wall to Moor Lane has an eaves cornice, carried around from the pediment, and windows with plain reveals. All the windows on the ground and first floors are sashed without glazing bars; those on the second floor have modern joinery. Below the ground-floor windows are blocked cellar openings. The building continues to the left under a continuous roof line as No.2 Moor Lane. On the ground floor it has a shop front of c1900, with a timber fascia and with steps within a recessed entrance. The upper wall is framed, with central display windows on the first and second floors.

Listing NGR: SD4787261751

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