Storey Institute, Back Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Architectural frontispiece.

Storey Institute, Back Entrance

WRENN ID
iron-moat-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1953
Type
Architectural frontispiece
Source
Historic England listing

Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/58 (South side) 22/12/53 Storey Institute, back entrance (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE PARK The Technical School (Storey Institute))

GV II

Former frontispiece to Cawthorne House, which was built in the 1770s by Richard Gillow for John Fenton Cawthorne and stood on the site of the present Post Office in Market Street. Re-sited and reduced in height c1906. Sandstone ashlar. Roman Doric portico with 2 columns in antis under a triglyph frieze and cornice. Above this 3 courses of masonry with chamfered quoins and a small moulded cornice, then a single course surmounted by a pediment with dentils. (Originally there were 2 storeys between the portico and the pediment.) The openings of the portico are furnished with elegant wrought-iron gates and screens, also from Cawthorne House, which have elaborate scrolled cresting. The structure frames a rectangular opening in a single-storey building. Further to the left, however, is an ex-situ semicircular door hood of c1700, formerly part of a building which was demolished in 1906 to make way for an extension of the Storey Institute, Meeting House Lane (qv).

Listing NGR: SD4742461746

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