Lancaster Buildings
LANCASTER BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391417
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Lancaster Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- LANCASTER BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391417
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Lancaster Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANCASTER BUILDINGS, HIGH 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:
- LANCASTER BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84837 46004
Details
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
644-1/0/10006 HIGH STREET 27-OCT-05 Lancaster Buildings
GV II Block of shops and offices. 1936-1940. Hickton and Madeley, Steel frame with red brick facade with stone and false-marble dressings and metal-framed windows with a plain tile hipped roof. 12 ground floor shops of varied size, basement and 2 upper storeys. Market Street elevation: The central office doorway has double bronze doors set in a Travertine marble surround with attached columns to either side. To either side are shop units with large plate glass windows. The stall risers are clad in Verte Tinos marble and the mullions and fascias are of cream filled-Travertine. To the corners are curved windows and lobbies which contain their original doors, and above the ground floor is a concrete awning with panels of glass bricks to its roof and a bronze fascia. This pattern of shop fronts with their original fittings continues around the building. At first and second floor levels the metal-framed windows have projecting stone surrounds. There are 5 central bays to Market Cross and 7 to New Street, with 7 also to Cheapside and High Street. The corners are slightly recessed and rounded with longer strip windows. On Cheapside the building is stepped at the centre to allow light to those buildings on the opposite side of the road. At either end of this face are 2-bay projecting wings. At the centre of the building is a rectangular courtyard. Interior: The bronze panelled doors facing Market Cross lead to a lobby with Travertine panelling to the walls and fluted pilaster strips. The staircase has a central lift and bronze balustrade with simple mouldings.
This is a well-designed office building with shops which retains a remarkably large quantity of original features, most particularly to the shop fronts.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495050
- 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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