Greycourt
GREYCOURT, 2, ST MARYS GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195051
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Greycourt
- Statutory Address:
- GREYCOURT, 2, ST MARYS GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195051
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Greycourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYCOURT, 2, ST MARYS GATE
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:
- GREYCOURT, 2, ST MARYS GATE
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 47434 61908
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW ST MARY'S GATE 1685-1/6/286 (North side) 22/12/53 No.2 Greycourt (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET No.2 Greycourt)
GV II
House. c1792, restored c1987. For Mr Richard Postlethwaite. Sandstone ashlar, brought to a smoother face on the facade, and a slate roof with gable stacks to left and right. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys above a tall basement which, because of the steep cross-fall of the ground accommodates on the right a wide lintelled coach entrance. 3 widely-spaced bays with a roll-moulded band above the basement, an ovolo-moulded sill band on the first floor, a plain sill band on the second floor, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. All the windows, which have 12- or 9-pane sashes, have moulded architraves. Those on the first floor have a plain cornice supported on capitals which rise from the architrave, while those on the ground floor have slightly wider plain cornices carried on fluted consoles outside the architraves. The doorway, to the left, has a similar cornice and a door with more raised and fielded panels beneath an overlight. The doorway is approached along a terrace above the Church Steps (qv), and this has railings with cast-iron stick balusters and 'turned' standards with ball finials. The rear elevation includes one bay with tripartite glazing bar sash windows and has a porch with a door of 9 raised and fielded panels. INTERIOR: restored in the late 1980s, when partition walls installed when the house was in multiple occupation were removed. Entrance hall contains mahogany dogleg staircase with open string, Tuscan columns as newels, stick balusters, and ramped handrail. The main living room, to the right at the front on the ground floor, contains a marble fireplace in a Grecian style. This was previously in an upstairs bedroom and may originally have been supplied by Websters of Kendal. HISTORY: the house was built for Richard Postlethwaite, who also rebuilt Gardyner's Charity almshouses, which adjoined the house at right angles to the left but which are now demolished. A booklet published in 1978 to accompany an exhibition of the work of Thomas Harrison at Lancaster University suggested that the design of the house and almshouses may have been by Harrison. (Cross Fleury (pseud.): Time-Honoured Lancaster: Lancaster: 1891-: 41).
Listing NGR: SD4743461908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cross, F, Time Honoured Lancaster, (1891), 41
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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