4, QUEEN SQUARE
4, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212546
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 4, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212546
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 4, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, QUEEN SQUARE
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:
- 4, QUEEN SQUARE
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 47639 61436
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761SE QUEEN SQUARE 1685-1/8/236 (South side) 22/12/53 No.4
GV II
House, now offices. Late C18 with late C19 alterations. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Double-depth plan with 2 rear extensions, the one to the right long and narrow, and the one to the left with a 3-sided termination. 2 storeys and attic above cellars, and 4 bays under a wide moulded pediment. The windows are mostly sashed with plain reveals and projecting sills. The 2 left-hand bays on the ground floor have been replaced by a square bay window which has 2 windows facing forwards separated by a mullion, and a cornice and blocking course. Within the pediment is a Diocletian window with Gothick glazing. The doorway, in the 3rd bay, has a stone doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns and a triangular pediment. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels and an overlight. The rear wall includes a Diocletian window at 1st-floor level above a Venetian window. INTERIOR: altered in the later C19 and has a rear stair hall with a stair rising in 3 flights to a balustraded landing and having an open string and turned mahogany balusters.
Listing NGR: SD4763961436
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383268
- 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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