Bier and Twist

Bier and Twist, 28, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1HT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211305
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: Bier and Twist
Statutory Address:: Bier and Twist, 28, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1HT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211305
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: Bier and Twist
Statutory Address 1:: Bier and Twist, 28, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1HT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Bier and Twist, 28, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1HT

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47658 61733

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

SD4761NE 1685-1/7/160

LANCASTER MARKET STREET (north side) No.28, Blue Anchor Public House (Formerly listed as No.28, Blue Anchor Public House, previously listed as MARKET STREET (North side) No.28), formerly listed as MARKET STREET (North side) Blue Anchor Inn)

18/02/70

GV II Houses, now a public house. Early C18, altered C19 and restored c1990. Painted roughcast over sandstone rubble, with painted ashlar dressings. Slate roof with chimney stacks above the party walls. Three storeys above cellars. The facade facing west is of three bays with sashed windows in painted stone surrounds. The ground floor openings are a restoration in painted concrete. In the third bay there is a doorway, with a second doorway to its left. Main entrance under the opening to Anchor Lane at right angles to left. Above this, one window on each floor. Above the archway at rear of opening a glazing bar sash window on the first floor, and a two-light window with a flat-faced mullion above. The rear elevation to Lawson's Yard has several two-light mullioned windows with square flush mullions, and a cross-window to light the stairs. Lawson's Yard is now glazed over and gives access to No.22 Market Street and the building to the rear (qv), which now partly form an annexe to the Bier and Twist. INTERIOR: the bar to the right of the entrance is a scaled-down replica of the hull of the Lancaster privateer 'Thetis' which under Captain John Charnley fought off an attack by the much larger French warship 'Bonaparte' off Barbados in 1804. Beyond this a closed string staircase with two turned balusters per tread and a ramped handrail.

HISTORY: the Bier and Twist is said to have been a public house in 1725, when the licensee was Robert Armstrong.

Listing NGR: SD4765861733

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Legacy System number:: 383194
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.