1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194935
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194935
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
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:
- 1 AND 3, CABLE STREET
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 47613 61954
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE CABLE STREET 1685-1/7/25 (North side) 22/12/53 Nos.1 AND 3 (Formerly Listed as: CABLE STREET No.1) (Formerly Listed as: CABLE STREET No.3 Probate Registry)
GV II
Pair of houses, now shop and office, and a restaurant. 1760, altered and part demolished c1965. Designed by Richard Gillow. For Captain Henry Fell and Mr Samuel Simpson. Sandstone ashlar facade with ashlar dressings, and coursed and squared sandstone with brick used in part of the rear wing (perhaps the earliest dated use in Lancaster). Slate roof with, to the right, a coped gable with kneelers and a tall gable chimney. T-plan: double-depth front range with a long 2-storey rear wing. Originally 3 storeys above a cellar, although No.1 now has only one storey. 8 bays, 3 to No.1 and 5 to No.3, the last 2 placed over a waggon entrance with a deep stone lintel. Chamfered quoins, a first-floor sill band, and a moulded eaves cornice. All the windows have moulded architraves with triple keystones, those in No.3 have 12-pane sashes. In third and fourth bays the doorways of both houses are combined into a central feature (apparently the first time that this was done in Lancaster) with a single Doric pediment with triglyph frieze carried on 3 engaged columns. The doors are recessed, with 4 steps leading to panelled doors which have integral overlights with tracery of different patterns. The rear wing (approached through the waggon entrance) is covered by modern additions on the ground floor, but otherwise has coupled windows and a central 2-stage stair window, all with glazing bars. INTERIOR: No.3 has a dogleg staircase with an open string and scrolled brackets, and reeded architraves to some doors. HISTORY: Captain Fell was a Port Commissioner and perhaps a relative of Gillow. The specification for this building survives in the Gillow archives, and the mason was William Kirby, for whose use the design of the central doorway was drawn out at a large scale. Captain Fell's new house at Fleet Bridge is referred to in the specification for mason's work at the new Custom House (now the Maritime Museum, qv), prepared in 1762. No.3 was listed on 18.2.1970.
Listing NGR: SD4761361954
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383059
- 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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