34-38, KING STREET
34-38, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290229
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 34-38, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34-38, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290229
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 34-38, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34-38, KING 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:
- 34-38, KING 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 47581 61543
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/140 (West side) 18/02/70 Nos.34, 36 AND 38 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.34) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.36) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.38)
GV II
Row of 3 houses, now office, shop, and surgery. Late C18, altered C19 and C20. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses, with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, and chimneys of brick and stone. Double-depth plan, each house single fronted. 3 storeys over a high basement, and 3 bays per house, Nos 34 & 36 built with adjoining doorways and No.38 with doorway in 3rd bay. Chamfered quoins at corners. Each house has a raised entrance approached by a flight of 6 steps protected by bar railings with ramped handrails, and a recessed door with raised plain surround. Nos 36 & 38 both have partly-glazed doors with raised and fielded panels, the glazing to No.36 being treated as an integral overlight with diamond-patterned glazing bars. No.36 in the centre has an inserted shop-front to the left of its door surround replacing the original ground floor, and No.38 to the left has a basement area protected by railings carried round from the steps, with urn finials to the standards and a gate opposite to the basement doorway. The steps to No.34 have been replaced in concrete. The windows have painted raised plain surrounds, but the 1st-floor windows of No.38 have lower sills than the others. No.34 has sashed windows without glazing bars on the principal floors and 4-pane sashes at 2nd floor. No.36 has 4-pane sashes. No.38 has 12- and 9-pane sashes. Ridge chimneys at the junctions. Rear has inter alia a bow-window at ground floor of No.38. INTERIOR: No.38 has a doglegged staircase with open string, carved brackets, 2 slim turned balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail with wreathed curtail. At the 1st and 2nd floors three C18 fireplaces with fielded panels and raised or fluted keystones.
Listing NGR: SD4758161543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383174
- 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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