10-20, SUN STREET

LANCASTER

SD4761NE SUN STREET 1685-1/7/301 (West side) Nos.10-20 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses, one now a shop. Late C18, altered mid C19 and C20. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses, and slate roof. Double-depth plan. Designed as 3 pairs each having linked doorways in the centre, rear extensions at the side of each house and gable chimney stacks, except No.10, which is of deeper plan and with staircase in rear extension to right. 3 storeys above cellars and one bay per house. The doorways have plain surrounds and 6-panel doors, but the windows have plain reveals. The windows of No.10 have been altered on the first floor, by the insertion of a pair of glazing bar sash windows, and on the ground floor by the creation of a wide opening with chamfered reveals filled by a shop front with canted sides and a full-width timber fascia with segmental pediment in the centre. Nos 18 & 20, at the left, have late C20 bow windows on the ground floor, the right-hand one under a concrete lintel, and steel balconies on the first floor; their first- and second-floor windows are glazing bar sashes. No.16 has a glazing bar sash on the first floor. No.14 has similar windows on the ground and first floors. The remaining windows are either 4-pane sashes or C20 casements. Rear elevation with full-height stair windows to centre of each pair (except No.10). HISTORY: probably built just after the creation of Sun Street, which was laid out in 1791 on the garden of the Sun Inn, Church Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SD4756461799