8-9, Dalton Square

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE 1685-1/7/102 (East side) 22/12/53 Nos.8 AND 9 (Formerly Listed as: DALTON SQUARE No.8) (Formerly Listed as: DALTON SQUARE No.9)

GV II

Pair of houses, now doctors' surgeries. Built c1800. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings, and coursed dressed sandstone to the sides and rear. Slate roof with coped gables, and 2 gable stacks. Double-depth plan with the doorway and rear wing of each house placed together at the centre of the pair. 3 storeys above a cellar, and 3 bays in each house with a sill band on all floors and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. The doorways, which occupy the centre bays of the pair, are approached up 3 steps with nosings and are flanked by low walls. Each doorway has Tuscan pilasters, with a fluted frieze, which carry an open segmental pediment. The doors have 9 panels under a fanlight, of which the one to No.9 has its original glazing bars. All the windows have plain reveals and sill bands. No.9 has 12-pane sashes on the first and ground floors and 9-pane sashes on the second floor, the other windows are sashed without glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SD4790461586