32, PARLIAMENT STREET
32, PARLIAMENT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212179
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 32, PARLIAMENT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, PARLIAMENT STREET
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- Date:
- 2000-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/02662/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212179
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 32, PARLIAMENT STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, PARLIAMENT 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:
- 32, PARLIAMENT 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 47995 62131
Details
LANCASTER
SD4762 PARLIAMENT STREET 1685-1/3/218 (South side) 03/02/87 No.32 (Formerly Listed as: PARLIAMENT STREET No.32 Premises of J & W Halliday)
II
Marble works, now shop. c1870, with late C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. A symmetrical composition of 3 storeys above a cellar and 5 bays. The cellar openings are set within a battered rusticated plinth. The ground and first-floor windows have voussoirs of alternating red and yellow sandstone, and a red sandstone impost course. Below the sills of the second-floor windows is a string course, and below the third-floor window is a red sandstone course. The ground-floor windows are sashed and have shallow 2-centred arches and angle shafts. Recessed within the semicircular outer arches of the 1st-floor windows are 2 round-headed lights separated by a central marble column, with a roundel pierced by 4 circles above. The 2nd-floor windows are each of 2 lights with voussoirs of alternating colours, have central marble shafts, and rise into gabled dormers with copings. A stone gutter is carried on corbels. The central doorway has a shallow 2-centred arch, roll-moulded in 2 orders with an outer hoodmould. The glazed doors and tiled steps are a late C20 alteration. Chimneys to left and right. The left-hand return wall is of 2 bays with plainer window details. HISTORY: in 1865 Richard Fawcett, marble merchant, sculptor and manufacturer of marble chimney pieces etc, was recorded at Green Ayre, and in 1881 the premises were occupied by Anthony Bell and Sons, marble masons and sculptors. The building once contained 'a fine marble staircase'. (Lancaster City Museums Local Studies: Price, J: Industrial Lancaster: Lancaster: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD4799562131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Price, J, Lancaster City Museums Local Studies in Industrial Lancaster, (1989)
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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