Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW FENTON STREET
1685-1/6/116 (West side)
No.6

GV II

House, now flats. Early C19 (before 1821). Sandstone ashlar
with coursed rubble to the rear and side. Slate roof with a
coped gable to the left, and gable stacks. Double-depth
single-fronted plan with the doorway in the left-hand bay. 3
storeys above a cellar, and 2 bays with a plinth, a
first-floor sill band, and a prominent moulded cornice. The
entrance has 3 steps enclosed by late C20 small bar railings
with a short frieze of intersecting waves to the front, a
similar restored frieze to the sides, and pineapple heads to
the standards. The doorway has plain reveals under a cornice
on consoles, and an altered panelled door with an overlight.
All the windows have plain reveals and glazing bar sashes. The
left-hand return wall has a tall round-headed stair window
with imposts and keystone, and intersecting glazing bars.
INTERIOR: the dogleg staircase is placed between the front and
back rooms and has an open string, stick balusters and a
mahogany handrail; in the back room the tympanum has a moulded
plaster fan.

Listing NGR: SD4745161596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489585

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)