WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS

WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS, 1-23, NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212101
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1989
List Entry Name:: WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS
Statutory Address:: WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS, 1-23, NORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212101
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1989
List Entry Name:: WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS, 1-23, NORTH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WARING AND GILLOW'S SHOWROOMS, 1-23, NORTH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47895 61956

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NE NORTH ROAD 1685-1/7/215 (South side) 27/11/89 Nos.1-23 (Odd) Waring and Gillow's Showrooms

II

Furniture showrooms and offices. 1882, altered C20. Probably by Paley and Austin. For Gillow's, whose name appears on the lintel of the internal doorway. Coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with tall, twin-flue chimney stacks on either side of the entrance bays. The 18-bay facade in a free Elizabethan style has 3 storeys plus cellars and attics. The facade is articulated by 4 approximately equally spaced shallow 2-bay projections which terminate in coped and finialed gables, with 3-light or 2-light attic windows. The doorway is in the second projection; its jambs are flanked by narrow windows and project forward like consoles to support a 2-storey canted bay with paired windows on each floor. On the first floor these are cross-windows, flanked by a narrow window, and have a sliding sash below the transom; on the second floor they are simply 2-light windows with sliding sashes. On the ground floor the windows in bays 1-6 & 9-10 have been widened to form shop windows, but the other windows are like those on the first floor. INTERIOR: on either side of the staircase are tall, well-lit showrooms, their moulded ceiling beams are supported by a single row of cast-iron columns with a fluted shaft and studded band. The staircase is Imperial in form, with heavy newel posts and balusters like inverted obelisks; it rises against a large 21-light mullioned and transomed window. The showrooms, once linked to the large 5-storey factory on St Leonardgate (qv), are an integral and imposing part of the centralised premises of the Gillow company, one of the major provincial furniture makers in the C18 and C19 centuries, which was active here until its closure in 1962.

Listing NGR: SD4789561956

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Legacy System number:: 383245
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.