Assembly
ASSEMBLY, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211144
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Assembly
- Statutory Address:
- ASSEMBLY, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211144
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Assembly
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASSEMBLY, KING STREET
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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:
- ASSEMBLY, 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 47532 61637
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/151 (West side) 18/02/70 Assembly Rooms (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Assembly Rooms (now used as Employment Exchange))
GV II
Assembly room, now antique market and dance studio. 1759, enlarged and altered early and late C19. Possibly by Richard Gillow. For the trustees of Penny's Hospital (qv). Coursed dressed sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Originally L-shaped with a rear wing at the right to house the staircase, but extended behind the main block in the early C19, and again behind the left in the later C19. 2 tall storeys and 5 bays, almost symmetrical. The central entrance has a semicircular Tuscan porch mounted on 3 semicircular steps, with 2 columns and semicolumns without bases, and a doorway with plain surround. To the right, the 5th bay contains a tall doorway with a square overlight and raised quoined surround, leading to the staircase to the assembly room on the upper floor. The windows at ground floor have matching surrounds, but those at 1st floor have raised plain surrounds, all are large 18-pane sashes, and the glazing bars of some at 1st floor may be original. Between the 1st and 2nd, and the 4th and 5th bays lead rainwater heads are mounted below the moulded wooden gutter cornice. The roof is hipped. INTERIOR: ground floor has an axial beam supported by 2 cast-iron columns (probably C19). Upper floor reached by open-well staircase with closed string, turned balusters and ramped handrail. The assembly room on 1st floor has a musicians' gallery (probably by Gillow's) carried on 2 wooden Tuscan columns, with a projecting centre supported by brackets, and the front panels decorated with Chinese Chippendale fretwork design; the walls have raised fielded panelling, and a dentilled cornice to the coved ceiling. At ground floor a doorway behind the staircase has an ex situ lintel carved with initials and the date '1714'.
Listing NGR: SD4753261637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383185
- 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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