17-18, DALTON SQUARE

LANCASTER

SD4761NE DALTON SQUARE 1685-1/7/105 (West side) 09/07/74 Nos.17 AND 18 (Formerly Listed as: DALTON SQUARE Nos.15-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses, now shops. c1800, altered C20. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof and gable stacks. Double-depth plan with the doorways of each house placed together in the central bays, but with the rear wings to the sides. 3 storeys above cellars, and 2 bays in each house with coupled doorways, and coupled windows in the centre of the first and second floors. The ground floor of both houses has been altered by the insertion of recent shop fronts, but the doorways remain with C20 doors of 6 raised and fielded panels. All the windows have plain reveals. No.18, to the right, has fixed window frames with glazing bars on the first floor and top-hung casements with glazing bars on the second floor. No.17 has glazing bar sashes. On the first floor the right-hand window has been removed (probably in the C19) and replaced by a single tripartite window with stone mullions. INTERIOR: both doorways now open into a shared entrance lobby. No.17 has a dogleg open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, 2 stick balusters per tread, and a moulded, ramped mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: SD4782661638