4 And 6, Queen Street

LANCASTER

SD4761SE QUEEN STREET 1685-1/8/240 (West side) 22/12/53 Nos.4 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.4) (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.6)

GV II

House, now register office. Late C18, enlarged early C19, altered late C19 and restored 1970s. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys above cellars. Main part of facade symmetrical, of 5 bays, with an eaves cornice below a timber gutter and with glazing bar sash windows with plain reveals and projecting sills. The cellar openings are now blocked. Above the doorway is a cornice on fluted console brackets. The door is of 6 raised and fielded panels below a glazed panel. At the left is an addition which has ashlar in narrower courses and a 2-storey canted bay window which contains glazing bar sashes in plain stone surrounds. The left-hand gable is coped. Chimney to left of the main house. The left-hand gable wall includes a tall window with plain stone surround and round head rising from first-floor level and with its upper part blocked. To each side close to eaves level are blocked lunette windows. Much of the rear wall appears to have been rebuilt in the late C19 using stone in narrow courses and including a 2-storey bow. INTERIOR: largely altered, but with an archway with fluted pilaster jambs leading through to the rear stair hall. The open-string dogleg stair has 3 turned balusters to each tread. It terminates in a cur-tail and has turned newels and a ramped handrail. No.4 listed on 18.2.70.

Listing NGR: SD4760261449