1, Water Street

LANCASTER

SD4761NE WATER STREET 1685-1/7/313 (West side) 22/12/53 No.1

GV II

House, now flats. Late C18, restored and converted c1985. Sandstone ashlar with slate hipped roof. 2 chimneys on ridge. A symmetrical composition of 3 storeys above cellars and 5 bays, with sill bands and with a moulded cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals; those in the central bay are tripartite with flat-faced stone mullions. The doorway is treated like a Venetian window, with Tuscan pilasters rising from a sill band; the outer pair carry an open pediment, and the inner pair separate the doorway from the flanking lights and carry the architrave of the round-headed fanlight with Gothick glazing which rises into the pediment. The door, of raised and fielded panels, is recessed and has panelled reveals. The 5 external steps have nosings and have railings which are curved on plan. The left-hand return facade, facing Cable Street, is of 3 bays and has similar glazing bar sashes with plain reveals. At the left is a chimney. HISTORY: the building is shown (somewhat inaccurately) near the centre of an engraving of Lancaster from Green Ayre, after JC Ibbotson, made in 1807. (White, Andrew: Lancaster: A Pictorial History: Chichester: 1990-: FIG 19).

Listing NGR: SD4769961974