FARMERS ARMS HOTEL FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL

FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195067
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195067
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL, ALDCLIFFE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL, PENNY 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:: FARMER'S ARMS HOTEL, ALDCLIFFE ROAD
Statutory Address:: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL, PENNY 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 47735 61295

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761SE PENNY STREET 1685-1/8/226 (West side) Farmers' Arms Hotel

GV II

Pair of hotels (one formerly The White Cross), now a single hotel. c1900, altered C20. Possibly by Austin and Paley, in a Northern Renaissance style. Sandstone ashlar on the ground and first floors with squared coursed stone above, and slate roofs with coped gables. Reverse L-shaped plan on corner of Aldcliffe Road, with 2 entrances to Penny Street and one to Aldcliffe Road. Chimney stacks in various positions. 3 storeys, and 13 bays of irregular width which can be divided into 2 symmetrical blocks. The block at the corner of the 2 roads is almost symmetrical around the wide diagonal bay, which has chamfered quoins, a cornice-like band between the ground floor and the first storey, plus a sill band on the first floor, all under a tall Flemish gable; this rises to a small scrolled pediment, which is topped by a ball finial and carried by short pilasters flanking a tiny rusticated arch borne on a tapering pilaster. The ground floor of this bay has a 7-light mullioned and transomed bow window, and there is on the first floor a cross-window, topped by a broken segmental pediment and flanked by 2 single lights with a transom, all above an elaborate apron. The second-floor window, like those under the other gables, has been altered by the insertion of a concrete lintel and wooden mullions. This central bay has on either side a narrow bay with, on the ground floor, a square-headed and keystoned doorway, set under a segmental pediment and flanked by single windows with a transom. Above the right-hand doorway is a canopy. There is a cross-window on the first floor and, on the second floor, a similar window which rises into a segmental dormer. Beyond this narrow bay, on either side, is a wide bay which rises into a gable which, to the right, is a simpler version of the central one and, to the left, a much simpler one without the arch and pilaster. The left bay has 3 windows on the ground floor and 2 windows above, mostly cross mullions. The right bay has 3 windows on the ground floor, and a single 3-light cross mullion window above. The right-hand block facing King Street is symmetrical about a wide central bay which rises to a gable like the one on the right of the left-hand block. On the ground floor of its central bay is a very wide entrance (now subdivided into three) under a richly moulded flat arch carried on console brackets. On the first floor is a cross-window flanked by single lights with a transom, with an elaborate apron beneath and a small scrolled pediment above. On either side of this central bay on the first and second floors there are rusticated pilasters, which are repeated between all the windows on these 2 storeys. This central bay is flanked by 3-bay wings, which have on the ground floor a round-headed window, flanked by short windows under a segmental pediment. These windows have probably original stained-glass with floral motifs: the 2 windows to the left of the door are labelled 'Commercial Room' and 'Lounge Bar'. On the first floor there are a cross-window with a single transomed window on either side, and on the second floor a similar arrangement of windows without transoms.

Listing NGR: SD4773561295

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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.