Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW FENTON STREET
1685-1/6/117 (West side)
Trades Hall

GV II

House, altered to Trades Hall and then social club. c1830,
with late C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar, with coursed
squared sandstone to the sides and rear, and a slate roof.
Double-depth double-fronted plan with the doorway and the
staircase in the centre. The roof has a central flat flanked
by 2 spans, with their ridges at right angles to the street
and hips to the front, the left-hand roof has a chimney stack
on the ridge.
2 storeys over a basement, and 5 bays with a plinth, a
first-floor band, and a moulded cornice. The narrow central
bay breaks forward slightly and has a recent brick gablet, set
back behind the cornice, which conceals a skylight. The
doorway, approached up 3 steps, has a moulded architrave under
a cornice carried on fluted consoles which rise from panelled
pilaster strips; the door has 8 panels. All the windows have
plain reveals and recent top-hung casement windows with
glazing bars which replace former sashes. At the left end of
the facade is a short screen wall with a doorway; this opens
onto a stone deck along the side wall, protected by decorated
cast-iron railings and leading to a side door; there are 2
further doors below this in the basement. The rear has, inter
alia, a full-height canted bay window on the right with a
large tripartite sashed window at ground floor and a hipped
roof.
INTERIOR: contains an elegant geometrical staircase, oval in
plan.

Listing NGR: SD4745661574

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489586

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