Brown Cow Public House

BROWN COW PUBLIC HOUSE, 42 AND 44, PENNY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212267
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:
Brown Cow Public House
Statutory Address:
BROWN COW PUBLIC HOUSE, 42 AND 44, PENNY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212267
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:
Brown Cow Public House
Statutory Address 1:
BROWN COW PUBLIC HOUSE, 42 AND 44, PENNY 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BROWN COW PUBLIC HOUSE, 42 AND 44, PENNY 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 47707 61558

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NE PENNY STREET 1685-1/7/222 (West side) Nos.42 AND 44 Brown Cow Public House (No.44)

II

Former pair of houses, now a public house and a shop. Late C18, altered C19 and C20. Squared and coursed sandstone, now painted, and a slate roof. Double-depth plan and a rear extension to each side. 3 storeys above cellars, and 2 bays to each former house, with raised quoins on the left only, and square blocks to carry the timber gutter. All the openings have sashed windows with plain surrounds. To the right the ground floor has been altered by the insertion of a shop front, and to the left it has an original doorway and sash window, both with plain stone surrounds.

Listing NGR: SD4770761558

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
383255
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.

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