87, KING STREET

87, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211085
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:
87, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
87, KING STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211085
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:
87, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
87, KING 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
87, 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 47663 61468

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761SE KING STREET 1685-1/8/145 (East side) 22/12/53 No.87

GV II

Formerly known as: No.73 QUEEN SQUARE. Shown on OS map as 73 King Street. House, now offices. Late C18, altered C19. Sandstone ashlar. Slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear wing to the left. 3 storeys and 3 bays, over cellar, the facade canted back to the left. Flush quoins to left corner, sill band to 2nd floor. Ground floor has doorway to left, with plain surround and plain moulded cornice, a modern glazed door, and 2 large altered windows to the right under a fascia board, and below these, patched masonry with ventilators in place of former cellar openings. 1st floor has 15-pane sashes with projecting sills; 2nd floor has 12-pane windows, that in the centre fixed and the others sashed. Now no chimneys. Left gable wall has 12-pane attic window. Rear. Large 3-stage stair window, and single-storey extension. INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with open string, simple scrolled brackets, stick balusters, ramped handrail, and fluted newel at the foot.

Listing NGR: SD4766361468

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
383179
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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