31,33 AND 35, SUN STREET

LANCASTER

SD4761NE SUN STREET 1685-1/7/307 (East side) Nos.31, 33 AND 35

GV II

Row of 3 houses, now offices. c1800, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar, and slate roofs with coped southern gable. Nos 31 & 33 have double-depth plans with linked recessed doorways, up 3 steps, facing west. No.35 is only one room deep, with one bay facing west, and has a gabled double-fronted facade facing south with a central doorway. The chimney stacks are on the north gable and on the party wall between Nos 33 & 35. 3 storeys above cellars in a plinth, and 3 bays facing west under a plain eaves cornice; the first 2 bays belong to Nos 31 & 33, while the third lights the side of No.35. The south pedimented gable has a round-headed attic window, above a band which continues the line of the stone box gutter on the front. All the openings have plain reveals. The doorways to Nos 31 & 33 were re-modelled in 1988. They have doors each of 6 raised panels and overlights, with re-entrant corners, and a cornice carried on plain consoles, as does the doorway to No.35. All the windows are sashed with glazing bars to give 12 or 9 panes, except for the lower sashes on the ground floor. However, the windows on the right-hand gable are blind, blocked with stone slabs in 2 planes originally painted to look like 16-pane sashes. HISTORY: on the 1845 OS map No.35 is marked as the Town Clerk's Office. (Ordnance Survey: Map of Lancaster at Five Feet to One Mile: Southampton: 1849-).

Listing NGR: SD4755461756