Description

LANCASTER

SD4762 PARLIAMENT STREET
1685-1/3/218 (South side)
03/02/87 No.32
(Formerly Listed as:
PARLIAMENT STREET
No.32
Premises of J & W Halliday)

II

Marble works, now shop. c1870, with late C20 alterations.
Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof.
A symmetrical composition of 3 storeys above a cellar and 5
bays.
The cellar openings are set within a battered rusticated
plinth. The ground and first-floor windows have voussoirs of
alternating red and yellow sandstone, and a red sandstone
impost course. Below the sills of the second-floor windows is
a string course, and below the third-floor window is a red
sandstone course. The ground-floor windows are sashed and have
shallow 2-centred arches and angle shafts. Recessed within the
semicircular outer arches of the 1st-floor windows are 2
round-headed lights separated by a central marble column, with
a roundel pierced by 4 circles above. The 2nd-floor windows
are each of 2 lights with voussoirs of alternating colours,
have central marble shafts, and rise into gabled dormers with
copings. A stone gutter is carried on corbels.
The central doorway has a shallow 2-centred arch, roll-moulded
in 2 orders with an outer hoodmould. The glazed doors and
tiled steps are a late C20 alteration. Chimneys to left and
right. The left-hand return wall is of 2 bays with plainer
window details.
HISTORY: in 1865 Richard Fawcett, marble merchant, sculptor
and manufacturer of marble chimney pieces etc, was recorded at
Green Ayre, and in 1881 the premises were occupied by Anthony
Bell and Sons, marble masons and sculptors. The building once
contained 'a fine marble staircase'.
(Lancaster City Museums Local Studies: Price, J: Industrial
Lancaster: Lancaster: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SD4799562131

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507154

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)