Former Vicarage
FORMER VICARAGE, PRIORY CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195071
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER VICARAGE, PRIORY CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195071
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER VICARAGE, PRIORY CLOSE
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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:
- FORMER VICARAGE, PRIORY CLOSE
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 47411 61968
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW PRIORY CLOSE 1685-1/6/232 Former Vicarage
GV II
Former vicarage for the Priory Church of St Mary (qv), now an office. 1848 altered C20. In an Elizabethan vernacular style. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, and steeply-pitched slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Double-depth plan with 2 parallel ridges and, to the front, 2 cross-wings, between which is the entrance, with a narrow one-bay extension to the right which has a slightly more projecting cross-wing; prominent chimney stacks on the outer wall of all the cross-wings. 2 storeys, plus cellars and attics, with a string course above the ground floor, and 5 unequal bays. The gabled porch has cross-windows in the sides and a Tudor-arched doorway under a shield bearing the coat of arms of the Borough of Lancaster. Above the porch is a bas-relief carved with a branch and a scroll bearing the name of the builder, Joseph Turner, Vicar. In the centre of the first floor is a 4-light mullioned and transomed window under a relieving arch. This window is repeated, but without the relieving arch, in a taller version which projects slightly on both floors of the right-hand cross-wing, while the left-hand cross-wing has a 5-light mullioned and transomed window in a canted bay on both the ground and first floors. The attics are lit, in the cross-wings, by 2-light windows and, above the entrance, by a 2-light gabled dormer. The cross-wing on the far right has mullioned and transomed windows, of 4 lights on the ground floor and 3 lights on the first floor, both set under relieving arches. The garden front includes a projecting central gabled wing with a 2-storey mullioned and transomed canted bay window.
Listing NGR: SD4741161968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383264
- 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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