Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE
1685-1/7/103 (West side)
Nos.11 AND 12

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops. Early C19, altered late C19.
Sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and gable stacks.
Double-depth plan, with a doorway and a rear wing on each
house placed together in the centre. 3 storeys, probably above
cellars, and 2 bays in each house, with a sill band on the
first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The
ground floor has been altered by the insertion of shop fronts,
but the coupled doorways remain in the centre with plain
surrounds. Recessed doors up 2 internal steps, with 6 panels,
the upper 4 with re-entrant corners, and fanlights, that to
No.11 with lozenge tracery. All the windows on the upper
floors have plain reveals. No.11 has 12-pane sashes on the
first floor, and top-hung casements above. No.12 has sashed
windows without glazing bars on both floors.
INTERIOR: No.11 has a dogleg open-string staircase with
scrolled brackets, columnar newels, 2 stick balusters per
tread, and a ramped handrail, now painted but probably of
mahogany.

Listing NGR: SD4782761590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505454

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)