5, DALTON SQUARE

5, DALTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210402
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:
5, DALTON SQUARE
Statutory Address:
5, DALTON SQUARE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210402
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:
5, DALTON SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
5, DALTON SQUARE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5, DALTON SQUARE

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 47906 61630

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE 1685-1/7/101 (East side) 22/12/53 No.5

GV II

House, now council offices. 1801-1809. For Jacob Ridley. Sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Double-depth plan with a doorway and rear wing to the left, and chimney stacks on both gables. 3 tall storeys above a cellar, and 3 bays with a sill band on the first floor and an eaves cornice. The doorway, in the left-hand bay, is approached up a flight of 4 steps, parallel to the wall; it has a pedimented Ionic sandstone doorcase. The door has 9 raised and fielded panels under an overlight with radiating glazing bars. The steps to the doorway are protected by bar railings with ball finials to the standards. All the windows have plain reveals and glazing bar sashes, giving 12 panes on the ground and first floors, and 9 on the second floor. Single-storey extension to right-hand side is not of special interest.

NGR: SD4790661630

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383132
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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