Music Room
MUSIC ROOM, SUN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298332
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Music Room
- Statutory Address:
- MUSIC ROOM, SUN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298332
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Music Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSIC ROOM, SUN 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:
- MUSIC ROOM, SUN 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 47523 61763
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE SUN STREET 1685-1/7/308 (West side) 22/12/53 Music Room
GV II*
Garden pavilion, now shop and flat. c1730, extensively restored in the early 1970s after falling into dereliction. Sandstone ashlar with rubble to sides and rear and with a slate roof behind a parapet. The facade is tall and narrow, of 3 storeys and 3 bays with a wider central bay. The 2 lower storeys have fluted pilasters, Ionic on the ground floor and Corinthian on the 1st floor, carrying entablatures. The attic storey has panelled pilasters, and a cornice below a balustrade. The central first floor glazing bar sash has a moulded surround with a swan-necked pediment supported on brackets and with a central urn, on either side are similar sashes in plain surrounds. Above three 9-pane smaller sashes, the central one with a moulded surround. On the ground floor the outer bays have doorways with architraves. Above each is a round-headed window with moulded imposts. The wide central round-arched opening is now glazed and has moulded imposts, a mask keystone, and scrollwork spandrel decoration. INTERIOR: the principal room, on the first floor, has very richly decorated plasterwork walls and ceiling of c1730. Above the fireplace is the god Apollo with his lyre. To each side are plaster panels with central medallion heads depicting the Muses, a motif which is repeated on the other walls. Above a heavy cornice the ceiling has Ceres surrounded by garlands of fruit and flowers and medallions bearing portraits of Roman emperors. HISTORY: probably built by Oliver Marton Senior in the garden of No.76 Church Street (qv) at some time after his purchase of the house in 1723 and before his death in 1744. The plasterwork has been attributed to Francesco Vassalli because of the similarity of the medallion heads to ones he is known to have executed at Towneley Hall in 1729-30. Restored and converted by the Landmark Trust. (Beard G: Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain: London: 1975-: 57).
Listing NGR: SD4752361763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beard, G, Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain, (1957), 57
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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