RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE

RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE, 52 AND 54, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1194999
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:: RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE, 52 AND 54, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1194999
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE, 52 AND 54, KING STREET

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:: RING O' BELLS PUBLIC HOUSE, 52 AND 54, 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 47614 61502

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/144 (West side) 22/12/53 Nos.52 AND 54 Ring o' Bells Public House (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET The Ring o' Bells)

GV II*

House, now public house. Mid C18, altered C19. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear central extension. 3 storeys and 4 bays, over cellar. Raised quoins to the left corner, bands on 2 levels, and moulded eaves cornice. The principal entrance, a recessed porch in the 2nd bay, has an unusually fine pedimented doorcase with fluted Doric engaged columns, triglyph frieze with carved military trophies between the triglyphs, and prominent segmental pediment with mutules. To the right, the 4th bay has a doorway with a simple moulded surround and an overlight with margin panes. The 1st and 3rd bays have shuttered cellar openings. All the windows are sashed without glazing bars and have moulded architraves, projecting moulded sills and aprons. Gable chimney stacks. Rear. Central extension under carried-down roof, with a flat-faced flush-mullion 2-light window at 1st floor, and similar windows on each floor to the left and at 1st floor to the right. INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with closed string and turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SD4761461502

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Legacy System number:: 383178
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.