The Bobbin
THE BOBBIN, 36, CABLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290604
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Bobbin
- Statutory Address:
- THE BOBBIN, 36, CABLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290604
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Bobbin
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BOBBIN, 36, CABLE 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:
- THE BOBBIN, 36, CABLE 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 47732 61955
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/05/2015
SD4761NE
1685-1/7/68
LANCASTER
CABLE STREET
No.36 (The Bobbin)
(Formerly listed as, Priory Hotel CHAPEL STREET (East side) including No.36 CABLE STREET).
GV
II
House and public house, now public house. Late C18 (before 1778) with additions of c1900, probably by Paley and Austin. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. The former house (No.36 Cable Street) has a facade of sandstone ashlar in narrow courses. Chimneys on left-hand gable and between bays 2 & 3. Double-depth plan with rear wing on the left. 2 storeys above a cellar, and 3 wide bays, a sill band on the first floor and an eaves cornice. All openings have plain reveals. The first-floor windows have 15-pane sashes. The right-hand window on the ground floor is sashed but has glazing bars only in the upper sash. The left-hand window is more recent and has casements. The doorway, in the central bay, has a simple cornice on consoles, and a rectangular overlight with glazing bars forming a diamond pattern, the door is late C19 with 9 panels, with a blocked opening to left. The addition of c1900 is of rectangular plan on the corner of Cable Street, with a central entrance on Chapel Street, flanked by a pair of chimney stacks. 2 storeys and an attic above a cellar, with 3 irregular bays to Chapel Street, a curved corner bay and 2 bays to Cable Street. The windows of the corner bay are flanked by pilasters carrying a deep frieze which continues around the building. Gables over the entrance, over the corner bay and, with an attic window, over the Cable Street bays. The entrance has a semi-elliptical arch with alternately dropped voussoirs and a hoodmould which steps up over each dropped voussoir. The doorway is flanked on the ground floor by a small window and, on the first floor, by slightly projecting chimney stacks which are carried on corbels and, above the eaves, become narrower between reversed consoles. The entrance has canted sides, whose dados have original tiles with an attractive pattern of birds and flowers. All the windows have square hoodmoulds with a stepped centre, and their surrounds are chamfered with a run-out stop;their upper sashes have glazing bars, but the lower ones have plate glass.
Listing NGR: SD4773261955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383100
- 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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