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Latitude: 54.0599 / 54°3'35"N
Longitude: -2.8006 / 2°48'2"W
OS Eastings: 347691
OS Northings: 462961
OS Grid: SD476629
Mapcode National: GBR 8PWH.GC
Mapcode Global: WH846.Y6JX
Plus Code: 9C6V355X+XQ
Entry Name: Dacrelands
Listing Date: 18 February 1970
Last Amended: 13 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1194926
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383035
ID on this website: 101194926
Location: Skerton, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1
County: Lancashire
District: Lancaster
Electoral Ward/Division: Skerton East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lancaster
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Skerton St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
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LANCASTER
SD4762 ALDRENS LANE, Skerton
1685-1/3/335 (North side)
18/02/70 Nos.1 and 2 Dacrelands
(Formerly Listed as:
ALDRENS LANE, Skerton
No.1 Dacrelands)
(Formerly Listed as:
ALDRENS LANE
No.2 Dacrelands)
II
Pair of houses, now clinic and house. Early C19, altered late
C19. Watershot coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and
hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan, with the doorways (and
the staircases) in the centre and chimneystacks between front
and back rooms. The building has, on both the main and side
facades, 2 storeys with a deep plinth, a first-floor sill
band, a plain frieze, moulded cornice, and low blocking
course.
The main front has 2 bays per house with ashlar quoins right
and left. The doorways occupy the central bays and are
recessed and paired under 3 unfluted Greek Doric columns
carrying a plain entablature, the right-hand door is panelled
with an overlight containing geometrical glazing bars. The
left-hand windows of No.1 have plain stone surrounds and
12-pane sashes, while No.2 has on the right a later C19
2-storey square bay window.
The facade to the left, facing west, has 3 bays, with a
central bow of ashlar which has 3 windows per storey, of which
the central one on the ground floor has been altered to form a
French window. The windows in the side bays have plain stone
surrounds; all have 12-pane sashes, those in the bow being
curved in plan.
INTERIOR: No.1 has a central hall with 2 bowed walls. The rear
bow enfolds a geometrical staircase, but has been altered by
the insertion of partition walls.
Listing NGR: SD4769162961
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