2, MOOR LANE, 1, GREAT JOHN STREET
1, GREAT JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298371
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 2, MOOR LANE, 1, GREAT JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, GREAT JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298371
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 2, MOOR LANE, 1, GREAT JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, GREAT JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2, MOOR LANE
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, GREAT JOHN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, MOOR LANE
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 47872 61751
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE GREAT JOHN STREET 1685-1/7/120 (East side) No.1
GV II
Includes: No.2 MOOR LANE. House, now club. c1800, with C19 and C20 alterations. Perhaps by Thomas Harrison. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with a coped gable. Rectangular double-fronted plan on a shallow site at the corner of Moor Lane, with a broad pedimented facade with a central entrance and gable chimney stack. 3 storeys above a basement expressed as a plinth, with an attic in the pediment, and 3 wide bays; sill bands on the first and second floors. The raised entrance is approached by a large double-sided flight of steps protected by railings; these have urn finials to the standards, and triple-leaf heads and wrought-iron scrollwork in the centre panels. The doorway and its narrow side windows have 2-centred arched heads, all set in a semi-elliptical arch framed by an open pediment carried on fluted consoles above pilasters. The ground floor has Venetian windows with a moulded architrave and a keystone. The upper floors have windows with plain reveals, those within the pediment being a low round-headed window between 2 lunettes. The 2-bay left-hand return wall to Moor Lane has an eaves cornice, carried around from the pediment, and windows with plain reveals. All the windows on the ground and first floors are sashed without glazing bars; those on the second floor have modern joinery. Below the ground-floor windows are blocked cellar openings. The building continues to the left under a continuous roof line as No.2 Moor Lane. On the ground floor it has a shop front of c1900, with a timber fascia and with steps within a recessed entrance. The upper wall is framed, with central display windows on the first and second floors.
Listing NGR: SD4787261751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383151
- 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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