1, WATER STREET
1, WATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 1, WATER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, WATER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 1, WATER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, WATER 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:
- 1, WATER 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 47699 61974
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE WATER STREET 1685-1/7/313 (West side) 22/12/53 No.1
GV II
House, now flats. Late C18, restored and converted c1985. Sandstone ashlar with slate hipped roof. 2 chimneys on ridge. A symmetrical composition of 3 storeys above cellars and 5 bays, with sill bands and with a moulded cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals; those in the central bay are tripartite with flat-faced stone mullions. The doorway is treated like a Venetian window, with Tuscan pilasters rising from a sill band; the outer pair carry an open pediment, and the inner pair separate the doorway from the flanking lights and carry the architrave of the round-headed fanlight with Gothick glazing which rises into the pediment. The door, of raised and fielded panels, is recessed and has panelled reveals. The 5 external steps have nosings and have railings which are curved on plan. The left-hand return facade, facing Cable Street, is of 3 bays and has similar glazing bar sashes with plain reveals. At the left is a chimney. HISTORY: the building is shown (somewhat inaccurately) near the centre of an engraving of Lancaster from Green Ayre, after JC Ibbotson, made in 1807. (White, Andrew: Lancaster: A Pictorial History: Chichester: 1990-: FIG 19).
Listing NGR: SD4769961974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383346
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
White, A, Lancaster A Pictorial History, (1990)
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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