Highmount House and Attached Railings
HIGHMOUNT HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210914
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Highmount House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHMOUNT HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210914
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Highmount House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHMOUNT HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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:
- HIGHMOUNT HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HIGH 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 47510 61482
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761SE HIGH STREET 1685-1/8/132 (West side) 22/12/53 Highmount House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET High Street House)
GV II
House and attached railings, now 13 flats. 1774, altered C19 and C20. Built for Thomas Saul. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses with ashlar dressings, plus coursed rubble sides and rear. Slate roof. Main house L-plan formed by double-depth front block with rear wing to the left. Lower wing set back to left of main house. 2 storeys over a basement, symmetrical and of 5 bays, with rusticated quoins, deep plinth, moulded cornice and blocking course. The raised central entrance is approached by a flight of 5 steps with nosings, protected by cast-iron railings with urn finials to the standards, and the doorway has a plain surround under an open pediment on prominent consoles with guttae. On each side of the entrance cast-iron railings mounted on an ashlar plinth protect the basement area. The basement, which has 4 windows, is of ashlar masonry in very large blocks, finished with a band which is now broken by the ground-floor windows. The windows of the principal floors have raised plain surrounds and 12-pane sashes. The roof has inserted flat-roofed dormers (concealed by the blocking course), coped gables and gable chimney stacks. Attached at the left end, and set back, is a 2-bay extension with central doorway and 12-pane sashed windows. Rear: basement exposed, making 3 storeys; round-headed stair window with impost blocks and keystone. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, 3 turned balusters per tread, and ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SD4751061482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383166
- 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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