2, Castle Hill

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE HILL 1685-1/6/30 (West side) 18/02/70 No.2

GV II

House, now offices. Mid C18, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, gabled to the left and hipped to the right, and brick chimneys. Rectangular plan. Principal facade of 3 storeys and 5 bays, with, on the right facing down Church Street, a return facade of 3 bays over a cellar which has a door on the left and a blocked window on the right. Both facades have raised quoins, plain surrounds to all the openings, and an eaves cornice. The windows are sashed without glazing bars. The doorway is recessed in the centre of the 5-bay facade and is approached up 5 stone steps with iron handrails; its reveals have raised and fielded panels. The rear wall has a central full-height staircase window. INTERIOR: the room at right-hand end of ground floor is fully panelled, with a moulded cornice and raised and fielded panels both above and below a dado rail, and also a shouldered fireplace surround. An upper room contains a stone fireplace with raised keystone. The full-height dogleg staircase, has an open string, carved scrolled brackets, 2 turned balusters per tread and a ramped and moulded handrail with a wreathed curtail, but its topmost flights have a closed string with less decoration.

Listing NGR: SD4746861853