The Staggered Inn
The Staggered Inn, James Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298375
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Staggered Inn
- Statutory Address:
- The Staggered Inn, James Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298375
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Staggered Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Staggered Inn, James Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UP
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 Staggered Inn, James Street, Lancaster, LA1 1UP
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 47678 61662
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SD4761NE
1685-1/7/136
LANCASTER
JAMES STREET
The Staggered Inn
(Formerly listed as Slip Inn)
03/02/87
II
Public house. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Roughcast rubble with painted ashlar dressings. Slate roof. The building was extended to the rear in the late 1970s.
Main building of three storeys above cellars and three bays. Windows are sashed in painted raised stone surrounds. The doorway, in the left-hand bay with a third ground floor window to its left, has a painted stone surround and six-panel door. The second floor windows are half-height. Below the two right-hand ground floor windows are low cellar openings. Four corbel brackets for a timber gutter which is now replaced. Coped gable with kneelers and ridge stack to right. To the left is a lower two storey five bay wing with a central doorway and similar features, once probably a separate house. It has a ridge chimney at the left, and a chimney rising from the front wall at the right at the junction with the main building.
INTERIOR: ground floor of main building altered, with all internal walls demolished.
The last of Lancaster's alleyway inns and the only surviving building of James Street.
Listing NGR: SD4767861662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383170
- 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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