15-16, DALTON SQUARE

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE 1685-1/7/104 (West side) 09/07/74 Nos.15 AND 16 (Formerly Listed as: DALTON SQUARE Nos.15-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses, now offices and a restaurant. Early C19, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and gable stacks. Double-depth plan, with the doorways originally placed together in the central bays, but with rear wings to the sides. 3 storeys above cellars, and 2 bays in each house, with a shallow plinth, a sill band on the first floor, and an eaves cornice with a low blocking course. The ground floor of No.16 has been altered by the insertion of a recent shop front, but the doorway of No.15 remains. It is approached by 2-sided steps with nosings and has a plain surround under a cornice and a recessed 6-panel door with an overlight. To the left of this doorway, but offset to the right, to make space for a now blocked doorway further to the left, is a window. Like all the others it has plain reveals, but has a fixed window frame divided to resemble sashes with margin lights. All the other windows, except those on the second floor of No.15 which have top-hung casements, are sashed without glazing bars. INTERIOR: No.15 has a dogleg open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, 2 stick balusters per tread, and a ramped mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: SD4783061622