83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH STREET (See details for further address information)

BURNLEY

SD8433SW CHURCH STREET 906-1/10/27 (East side) 29/09/77 Nos.83, 85 AND 87

GV II

Includes: Nos.2, 4 AND 6 DAWSON SQUARE. Block of 6 small town houses, Nos 83-87 and No.2 Dawson Square now integrated as showroom/offices. Dated 1837 over corner; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof hipped over the corner. L-plan on corner site, No.83 occupying the corner and the others all formerly double-depth and single-fronted (Nos 83-87 remodelled). 3 storeys and cellars, 1+1+1 windows to Church Street, a splayed corner, and 1+1+2+1 windows to Dawson Square; with a moulded gutter cornice carried round and a small pediment over the corner dated "1837" in raised lettering. At ground floor No.83 has a corner doorway with plain surround and altered door, and in each side-wall a large vertical rectangular window with plain surround and shutter lugs; Nos 85 and 87 both formerly had similar openings with doorways to the left, but No.85 now has a greatly enlarged C20 window replacing both the doorway and the original window (re-using the jambs of the former doorway). The windows at 1st floor are vertical-rectangular and those at 2nd floor square, all with raised sills, plain surrounds and C20 glazing (15 and 9 panes respectively). Nos 2 and 4 Dawson Square have doorways flanking a through-lobby doorway and No.6 has a doorway at the right-hand; No.4 has a 16-pane sashed window at ground floor, 2 similar windows at 1st floor and two 9-pane sashes at 2nd floor, and No.6 has one window on each floor with top-hung casements imitating this pattern; all these openings with surrounds like those to Church Street. Large rectangular corniced ridge chimneys. Rear and INTERIORS not inspected. Forms a group with Nos 89-91 Church Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8433133007