33, Church Street

LANCASTER

SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/73 (South side) 09/07/74 No.33

GV II

House, now shop. c1800, altered late C19. Painted scored render over coursed and squared sandstone rubble. Slate roof with a multiple-flue chimney stack on the right-hand gable. Double-depth plan with a rear wing to the right. 3 storeys under a moulded cornice with a blocking course, and 2 very widely-spaced bays with a sill band decorated with the Greek key motif on the first floor, interrupted by the lowered windows, and a plain sill band on the second floor. To left, leading to the original doorway of the house, the tall segment-headed waggon entrance with a rusticated surround and double doors with raised and fielded panels. The rest of the ground floor was altered in the late C19 by the insertion of a double-fronted shop window. The windows have plain reveals and 12-pane sashes on the first floor and 9-pane sashes on the second. INTERIOR: first-floor back room is circular in plan with a round-headed window and niches, and a plaster ceiling with a cornice and guttae and rosettes and a central roundel with radiating acanthus leaves and a reeded surround.

Listing NGR: SD4768561801