32, Parliament Street

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)

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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