Dacrelands
DACRELANDS, 1 AND 2, ALDRENS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194926
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Dacrelands
- Statutory Address:
- DACRELANDS, 1 AND 2, ALDRENS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194926
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Dacrelands
- Statutory Address 1:
- DACRELANDS, 1 AND 2, ALDRENS LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DACRELANDS, 1 AND 2, ALDRENS LANE
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 47691 62961
Details
LANCASTER
SD4762 ALDRENS LANE, Skerton 1685-1/3/335 (North side) 18/02/70 Nos.1 and 2 Dacrelands (Formerly Listed as: ALDRENS LANE, Skerton No.1 Dacrelands) (Formerly Listed as: ALDRENS LANE No.2 Dacrelands)
II
Pair of houses, now clinic and house. Early C19, altered late C19. Watershot coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan, with the doorways (and the staircases) in the centre and chimneystacks between front and back rooms. The building has, on both the main and side facades, 2 storeys with a deep plinth, a first-floor sill band, a plain frieze, moulded cornice, and low blocking course. The main front has 2 bays per house with ashlar quoins right and left. The doorways occupy the central bays and are recessed and paired under 3 unfluted Greek Doric columns carrying a plain entablature, the right-hand door is panelled with an overlight containing geometrical glazing bars. The left-hand windows of No.1 have plain stone surrounds and 12-pane sashes, while No.2 has on the right a later C19 2-storey square bay window. The facade to the left, facing west, has 3 bays, with a central bow of ashlar which has 3 windows per storey, of which the central one on the ground floor has been altered to form a French window. The windows in the side bays have plain stone surrounds; all have 12-pane sashes, those in the bow being curved in plan. INTERIOR: No.1 has a central hall with 2 bowed walls. The rear bow enfolds a geometrical staircase, but has been altered by the insertion of partition walls.
Listing NGR: SD4769162961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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