Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt
GARDEN HOUSE BEHIND NUMBER 2, GREYCOURT, ST MARYS GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214229
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN HOUSE BEHIND NUMBER 2, GREYCOURT, ST MARYS GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214229
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN HOUSE BEHIND NUMBER 2, GREYCOURT, ST MARYS GATE
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:
- GARDEN HOUSE BEHIND NUMBER 2, GREYCOURT, ST MARYS GATE
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 47452 62005
Details
LANCASTER
SD4762 ST MARY'S GATE 1685-1/3/287 (North side) 22/12/53 Garden house behind No.2, Greycourt (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Garden House to No.2 Church Street (Greycourt))
GV II
Summerhouse. Late C18, restored c1987. Squared sandstone rubble, with ashlar upper storey. Slate roof. Octagonal plan. 2 storeys above a cellar. Built against a garden wall, with a doorway on the south-east side. On the ground floor there are windows on the 3 sides to the right of the doorway. They have glazing bar sashes which appear to be C20 reproductions of the originals. The first-floor windows are similar and have a sill band. The southern side (to the left of the doorway) has a blind recess. Stone gutter cornice and central octagonal ashlar chimney cap. INTERIOR: contains a cantilevered stone stair with iron stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. A second flight of stone steps leads to a barrel-vaulted cellar. On the first floor is a cast-iron fireplace surround with a hob grate and boiler. HISTORY: not shown on Stephen Mackereth's map of 1778, but appears on J Walker's engraving of Lancaster Old Bridge in 1797. Clark, writing in 1807 about the adjoining Wery Wall (qv), said that 'A fragment of this wall is yet to be seen, adjoining the garden of John Ford Esq. part of which... sustains the north wall of his summer-house, adjoining the Vicarage Field.' (Centre for North-West Regional Studies Occasional Papers: White A & Shotter D: The Roman Fort and Town of Lancaster: Lancaster: 1990-: 8).
Listing NGR: SD4745262005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
White, A, Shotter, D, The Roman Fort and Town of Lancaster, (1990), 8
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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