54, Church Street

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/77 (North side) 09/07/74 No.54

GV II

Two houses, now shop. Early C18, altered C20. Painted sandstone rubble, rendered and lined, with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with gable chimney stack to the right. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys above a cellar, and 4 bays with chamfered quoins on the right, the doorway in the second bay, a recent band above the shop front, and a prominent eaves cornice. All the openings have moulded architraves, and the windows have glazing bar sashes restored in the late C20, with 18 panes on the first floor and 12 panes on the second. Shop front altered in keeping: the doorway original with a moulded architrave; the window to left basically original but with a sill lowered to ground level, while the tripartite window with square mullions on the right is recent. The rear has a gabled wall of 4 storeys including basement, which has a doorway with a chamfered surround of C17 type and a small blocked window on the right with a double chamfered surround. On the upper floors most windows, including the tall staircase window on the right, have architraves matching those on the front.

Listing NGR: SD4764561836