12, Queen Street

LANCASTER

SD4761SE QUEEN STREET 1685-1/8/242 (West side) 22/12/53 No.12

GV II

House, now annexe to girls' grammar school. Late C18, altered late C19. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses with hipped slate roof. The facade is symmetrical, of 2 storeys above cellars and 2 bays, with raised quoins, a cornice, and a parapet with coping. The windows, which are now sashed, have tripartite stone surrounds with Tuscan pilaster jambs and engaged baseless Tuscan columns as mullions. Below are tripartite cellar openings with plain stone surrounds, the left-hand one blocked. The entrance is now through a narrow single-storey addition to the right which has a door architrave with a bracketed cornice, below a cornice with blocking course; it appears to be of late C19 date, the original entrance being in the right-hand return wall. Chimneys to left and right. INTERIOR: stair hall at left with an arched entrance with fluted pilasters. The dogleg stair has a ramped mahogany handrail, an open string, stick balusters, and a fluted square lower newel.

Listing NGR: SD4759961392