Trades Hall
TRADES HALL, FENTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194988
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trades Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TRADES HALL, FENTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194988
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trades Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRADES HALL, FENTON 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:
- TRADES HALL, FENTON 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 47456 61574
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW FENTON STREET 1685-1/6/117 (West side) Trades Hall
GV II
House, altered to Trades Hall and then social club. c1830, with late C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar, with coursed squared sandstone to the sides and rear, and a slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with the doorway and the staircase in the centre. The roof has a central flat flanked by 2 spans, with their ridges at right angles to the street and hips to the front, the left-hand roof has a chimney stack on the ridge. 2 storeys over a basement, and 5 bays with a plinth, a first-floor band, and a moulded cornice. The narrow central bay breaks forward slightly and has a recent brick gablet, set back behind the cornice, which conceals a skylight. The doorway, approached up 3 steps, has a moulded architrave under a cornice carried on fluted consoles which rise from panelled pilaster strips; the door has 8 panels. All the windows have plain reveals and recent top-hung casement windows with glazing bars which replace former sashes. At the left end of the facade is a short screen wall with a doorway; this opens onto a stone deck along the side wall, protected by decorated cast-iron railings and leading to a side door; there are 2 further doors below this in the basement. The rear has, inter alia, a full-height canted bay window on the right with a large tripartite sashed window at ground floor and a hipped roof. INTERIOR: contains an elegant geometrical staircase, oval in plan.
Listing NGR: SD4745661574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383148
- 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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