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Number 4 and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Lancaster, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.0471 / 54°2'49"N

Longitude: -2.8031 / 2°48'11"W

OS Eastings: 347510

OS Northings: 461538

OS Grid: SD475615

Mapcode National: GBR 8PVM.XZ

Mapcode Global: WH846.XJBR

Plus Code: 9C6V25WW+VP

Entry Name: Number 4 and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 18 February 1970

Last Amended: 13 March 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1210850

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383162

ID on this website: 101210850

Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Electoral Ward/Division: Castle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lancaster

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lancaster St Mary with St John and St Anne

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



LANCASTER

SD4761NE HIGH STREET
1685-1/7/128 (West side)
18/02/70 No.4
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
No.4)

GV II

House, and attached railings. c1775, altered C19. Built for
John Rawlinson. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and
chamfered quoins. Slate roof with gable stacks to left and
right. 2 storeys with an attic and a basement.
5 bays under an eaves cornice with a balustrade, plus a 3-bay
centre crowned by a pediment containing a Diocletian window
with a moulded architrave. All the other windows have moulded
architraves and sashes with glazing bars, 4 panes on the
ground floor and 12 panes on the first floor. The doorway has
engaged Tuscan columns and an open pediment containing a
semi-elliptical fanlight with intersecting Gothick glazing
bars. The original door, up 2 steps with nosings, has raised
and fielded panels, those below the lock rail being arranged
in a diamond pattern. The areas to both sides have cast-iron
railings with urn finials on the standards.
INTERIOR: dogleg open-string staircase with carved brackets,
stick balusters, and ramped handrail. The entrance hall
archway is elliptical with fluted pilasters, and scrolled
decoration in the spandrels. The first-floor archway has
trefoil pilasters.


Listing NGR: SD4751061538

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