Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE ST LEONARD'S GATE
1685-1/7/285 (North side)
18/02/70 St Leonard's House

GV II

Furniture factory, later used by university, now offices.
1881-2, extended early C20 and altered 1964. For Gillow and
Company. Squared coursed sandstone with slate roof.
4 storeys plus attic, with basement entered from rear.
Original block of long rectangular plan, of 11 bays, parallel
with the road. The windows are timber casements with glazing
bars and are paired, separated by a stone mullion, in
vertical-rectangular openings with projecting sills. On the
1st floor there is a sill band. The right-hand bay on the
ground floor has only one window opening: at the right is the
entrance to Sugar House Alley. The attic storey has continuous
clerestory lighting of timber casements with glazing bars
under a slate roof. At the left a lift tower projects upwards
from the front wall.
The early C20 addition at the left is canted back to follow
the line of the road. It is of 10 bays separated by
black-painted concrete columns and has timber windows of 4 x 4
panes (4 x 3 on the 4th floor) with painted brick panels below
their sills. The 2 right-hand bay on the ground floor are
occupied by the entrance and by a window opening added in
1964. The addition also has clerestory lighting to the attic
storey, but in front of bays 5-7 is a flat-roofed brick
projection rising above the main eaves line.
INTERIOR: altered by the addition of suspended ceilings, floor
coverings, and partition walls.
HISTORY: built together with a showroom on North Road, now
Waring and Gillow's Showroom (qv), this building formed the
main part of Gillow's furniture factory. In 1961 the firm
closed its factory and the building was converted for use by
the University of Lancaster while their campus at Bailrigg was
being built. Subsequently it was used as an Adult Education
College and as offices.

Listing NGR: SD4792561898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509083

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