Sun Inn
SUN INN, 63, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298411
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Inn
- Statutory Address:
- SUN INN, 63, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298411
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN INN, 63, CHURCH 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:
- SUN INN, 63, CHURCH 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 47563 61844
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/79 (South side) No.63 Sun Inn
GV II
Public house. Late C18, altered C19. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings on the front and side, but rendered rubble elsewhere. Slate roof with a coped gable with kneelers to the left. Double-depth front block with a central doorway and a rear wing to the right. 3 storeys above cellars and 3 bays with raised plain quoins. All the openings have raised plain surrounds. The doorway has double doors of uncertain vintage with 10 flush panels. All the windows are sashed: those on the ground floor have no glazing bars; those on the first and second floors have 12 and 9 panes respectively; in the central bay on the second floor a glazed 9-pane blind window. The left-hand gable has a central doorway on the ground floor, with a window placed above it in each of the floors above, the first floor one is now blocked. In the rear wing close to the main block is a tall staircase window. HISTORY: built as part of the redevelopment of the land behind the old Sun Inn in the 1790s, which also resulted in the laying out of Sun Street.
Listing NGR: SD4756361844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383111
- 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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