Description

LANCASTER

SD4761SE HIGH STREET
1685-1/8/131 (East side)
22/12/53 High Street Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
The Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C18, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar facade with
ashlar dressings, and sides and rear of watershot coursed
sandstone. Slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, built
gable to road, facing north.
2 storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical. Gothick style. Plinth,
chamfered quoins, bracketed cornice and embattled parapet, and
4-centred arched openings; the former central doorway, which
has been altered as a window, has a deep double-chamfered
surround and a hoodmould, the 2 windows on each floor have
hollow-chamfered surrounds, and all are sashed, with
intersecting glazing bars. The roof has an attic dormer
concealed by the parapet, and gable chimneys. In the
right-hand side wall (to the road) is the present entrance, a
4-centred arched doorway with a small chamfer on an otherwise
plain surround, with a hoodmould above it, and over this a
tall stair window in matching style, with Y-tracery. The rear
has inter alia a large later 2-storey canted bay, with windows
sashed without glazing bars.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD4752661455

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489593

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)