BECONTREE HOUSE

BECONTREE HOUSE, 46, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210963
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: BECONTREE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BECONTREE HOUSE, 46, KING STREET

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Date:: 2007-04-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210963
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: BECONTREE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BECONTREE HOUSE, 46, KING 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:: BECONTREE HOUSE, 46, KING 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 47611 61516

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/142 (West side) 18/02/70 No.46 Becontree House (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.46)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.44 AND 46 KING STREET. House, now shop and dwelling. Mid C18, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. Composition tile roof. Double-depth 2-unit plan with a through-passage to the right. 3 storeys and 4 bays, with cellar and attic. The ground floor has an altered doorway at the right-hand end, with rusticated quoins to the left jamb and a wrought-iron gate to the passage, which has 2 doorways in its left side. A row of 4 windows offset to the left, with moulded architraves and altered glazing. Both upper floors have 4 windows arranged in pairs, all with moulded architraves, those at 1st floor sashed without glazing bars and those above with 2-pane upper leaves. Low flat-roofed dormer inserted in roof; gable chimneys. To rear a central, giant round-headed arched stair-window with a keystone, now mostly blocked and later windows inserted; other windows altered. INTERIOR: from 1st floor to attic, a dogleg staircase with open string, carved scrolled brackets, fluted rectangular newels, 2 slim turned balusters per tread, ramped and moulded handrail. Rectangular stone fireplace with fan-shaped keystone.

Listing NGR: SD4761161516

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Legacy System number:: 383176
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.