73, Church Street

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/84 (South side) No.73

GV II

House, now offices. c1700, altered early C19. Painted roughcast over sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Double-depth plan with a doorway and rear wing to the right, and gable chimney stack to right. 3 storeys above cellars and 4 bays, with a low plinth and a strongly-projecting eaves cornice projecting on plain timber brackets. The doorway, in the 4th bay, has a prominent cornice carried on pilasters, and a door with 12 raised and fielded panels. All the windows have painted stone rebated and chamfered jambs and heads, and are sashed with glazing bars, giving 16 panes on the ground and first floors and 12 panes on the second. The rear elevation has an early C19 two-storey ashlar bow with 2 tall (15-pane) sashed windows on each floor. INTERIOR: 2 staircases: a dogleg one rising from the rear of the hallway, with an open string and stick balusters; and a spiral stair rising from the front room. There are doorways with moulded wooden architraves, shutters at the ground-floor front windows, and the drawing room at the back has an early C19 fireplace with carved palmettes.

Listing NGR: SD4753361851