4, Fenton Street

This is an early 19th-century house, built before 1821 and altered in the 20th century, located on Fenton Street in Lancaster. The house is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with coursed rubble to the sides and rear, and has a slate roof with a coped gable on the right side and gable stacks. It follows a double-depth single-fronted plan, with the doorway and staircases located to the right. The building is over three storeys, including a cellar, and has two bays, featuring a plinth, a sill band on the first floor, and a prominent moulded cornice.

The entrance, situated in the right-hand bay, is approached by three steps enclosed by bar railings with a decorative frieze of intersecting waves, pineapple finials to the posts, and integral shoe-scrapers built into the returned sides. The doorway has simple surrounds and a recessed six-panelled door with an overlight. All windows originally had plain reveals and sash windows with glazing bars; these were replaced with casements featuring glazing bars in the late 1980s. A tall stair window with impost and keystone, and intersecting glazing bars, is visible on the right-hand return wall.