40 AND 42, KING STREET
40 AND 42, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194998
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 40 AND 42, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40 AND 42, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194998
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 40 AND 42, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40 AND 42, KING 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:
- 40 AND 42, KING 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 47608 61524
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/141 (West side) 18/02/70 Nos.40 AND 42 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.40) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.42)
GV II
House, now shop and flats. Mid C18, altered C19. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. Composition tile roof, brick chimney stacks. Double-depth 2-unit plan. 3 storeys and 4 bays, with cellar to the right-hand half, formerly symmetrical. The ground floor has a central doorway with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, and segmental pediment on carved brackets, to the left, an inserted shop window and doorway under a fascia and blind-box, and to the right, a shuttered cellar opening and a pair of windows. Both upper floors have 4 windows similarly arranged in pairs, and all these windows have moulded architraves, and are sashed without glazing bars. Moulded cornice, gable chimney stacks. To rear a central giant elliptical-arched stair-window with keystone, now mostly blocked but with a 2-light window on each floor.
Listing NGR: SD4760861524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383175
- 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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