The Staggered Inn

The Staggered Inn is a public house located on James Street in Lancaster. It was built in the late 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is made of roughcast rubble with painted ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building was extended at the rear in the late 1970s.

The main structure consists of three storeys above cellars and has three bays. The windows are sashed and set in painted raised stone surrounds. The doorway, located in the left-hand bay, has a painted stone surround and a six-panel door, with a third ground floor window to its left. The second floor windows are half-height, and there are low cellar openings beneath the two right-hand ground floor windows. The building has four corbel brackets that once supported a timber gutter, now replaced. The gable is coped with kneelers and features a ridge stack on the right. To the left, there is a lower two-storey, five-bay wing with a central doorway and similar architectural features, which was likely once a separate house. This wing has a ridge chimney on the left and another chimney rising from the front wall on the right at the junction with the main building.

Inside, the ground floor of the main building has been altered, with all internal walls demolished. The Staggered Inn is notable as the last of Lancaster's alleyway inns and is the only surviving building on James Street.