Description

LANCASTER

SD4761SE QUEEN SQUARE
1685-1/8/233 (West side)
22/12/53 No.1

GV II

House, now doctors' surgery. Late C18, altered C19 and
restored c1980. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof. Double-depth
plan.
A symmetrical composition of 2 storeys above cellars and 5
bays, with a cornice and with a parapet with coping. The
windows are sashed without glazing bars and have plain reveals
and projecting sills. The cellar openings are mostly glazed.
The doorway has a lugged stone architrave and a pediment. The
overlight has glazing bars with a curved intersecting design,
and the door has 6 raised and fielded panels. It is approached
up 4 steps with nosings and with iron railings. Chimneys on
gables, the left-hand one of brick and the right-hand one
rendered.
INTERIOR: the arch between the front hall and the stair hall
springs from fluted Doric pilasters. The dogleg stair has an
open string, 3 turned balusters per tread, turned newels, a
ramped handrail, and terminates with a cur-tail.

Listing NGR: SD4760661477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507300

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability