High Street Cottage

LANCASTER

SD4761SE HIGH STREET 1685-1/8/131 (East side) 22/12/53 High Street Cottage (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET The Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C18, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar facade with ashlar dressings, and sides and rear of watershot coursed sandstone. Slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, built gable to road, facing north. 2 storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical. Gothick style. Plinth, chamfered quoins, bracketed cornice and embattled parapet, and 4-centred arched openings; the former central doorway, which has been altered as a window, has a deep double-chamfered surround and a hoodmould, the 2 windows on each floor have hollow-chamfered surrounds, and all are sashed, with intersecting glazing bars. The roof has an attic dormer concealed by the parapet, and gable chimneys. In the right-hand side wall (to the road) is the present entrance, a 4-centred arched doorway with a small chamfer on an otherwise plain surround, with a hoodmould above it, and over this a tall stair window in matching style, with Y-tracery. The rear has inter alia a large later 2-storey canted bay, with windows sashed without glazing bars. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD4752661455