18, St James Street

BURNLEY

SD8432NW ST JAMES STREET 906-1/16/131 (South East side) 18/02/92 No.18 (Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES STREET (South East side) No.18 Yates Wine Lodge)

GV II

Formerly known as: Boot Inn ST JAMES STREET. Public house. 1911. By H Thompson of Blackpool; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style. Obtusely-angled plan on corner site, with convex corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 6 windows in total (2 to St James Street, one at the corner and 3 to Parker Lane), with a parapet decorated with unpierced roundels and a corner feature in the form of a round-headed panel in a semicircular open-pedimented architrave with scrolled supporters. The curved corner has 3-light mullioned sashed windows on both floors with linked architraves including panelled aprons to the ground floor and carved panelling between the floors. Left and right of the corner are wide doorways with elaborate architraves including panelled pilasters and emphatic open pediments on consoles, that to the left triangular and that to the right segmental, both containing carved enrichments, and above each is a segmental-headed sashed window with a shouldered architrave linked to that of the doorway. Otherwise, the St James Street facade has a 2-light mullioned sashed window at ground floor and a one-light window above this, with similarly linked and enriched architraves; and the Parker Lane facade has one wide and one narrow window at ground floor with coupled and single sashed windows above, in similar architraves. Ridge chimney, and gable chimney to the right. INTERIOR altered. HISTORY: with No.16 to the left, part of this architect's scheme for replacing the former Boot Inn and farm buildings on this site. Forms group with No.16 to the left (qv) and with No.22 (The White Lion) on the opposite corner (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8423032529