25, Brock Street

LANCASTER

SD4761NE BROCK STREET 1685-1/7/22 (North side) No.25

GV II

House, now offices. Early C19, altered. Sandstone ashlar with hipped slate roof. Single-depth double-fronted plan to Brock Street, with a return facade on the right to Dalton Square, adjoining No.11 (qv) with which it shares a very large (11-flue) chimney stack, now topped in brick. 3 storeys and 3 bays to Brock Street, with a plinth, a first-floor sill band and a prominent eaves cornice on both elevations. In the centre 3 steps with nosings and rounded corners lead to a doorway with plain reveals under a stone cornice on consoles: the door is recessed with an overlight. To the left is a shop window with console brackets of c1900. All other windows have plain reveals and altered joinery, mostly C20 casements. Those on the second floor have projecting sills. The Dalton Square elevation has 2 more closely-spaced bays, with sashed windows with no glazing bars on the 1st floor. C20 casements on the 2nd floor, and a recent shop window on the ground floor. INTERIOR: dogleg open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, 2 stick balusters per tread, a columnar newel and mahogany handrail, now all painted white.

Listing NGR: SD4782761579