54A,56 AND 58, MARKET STREET

LANCASTER

SD4761NE MARKET STREET 1685-1/7/169 (North side) Nos.54A, 56 AND 58

GV II

Row of 3 houses, now shops. Early C19 with C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar to the front, with coursed rubble and dressed stone dressings on the rear and on the left-hand wall to China Street. Slate roofs with a coped gable to the left. Double-depth plan with doorways, originally, to the right and with chimney stacks to the left. Each house has 3 storeys above a cellar and a wide tripartite window, off-set slightly to the left, on the upper floors. The ground floors have been altered by the insertion of shop fronts. The upper windows have plain reveals, square flush mullions and sashes without glazing bars. The doorway to No.56, which appears to be original, has plain jambs. The gable to China Street has a full-height stair window, with glazing bars, on the first and second floors. The shop front of No.54A now extends to the right below No.54 (qv).

Listing NGR: SD4752061723