The Staggered Inn

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SD4761NE 1685-1/7/136

LANCASTER JAMES STREET The Staggered Inn

(Formerly listed as Slip Inn)

03/02/87

II Public house. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Roughcast rubble with painted ashlar dressings. Slate roof. The building was extended to the rear in the late 1970s.

Main building of three storeys above cellars and three bays. Windows are sashed in painted raised stone surrounds. The doorway, in the left-hand bay with a third ground floor window to its left, has a painted stone surround and six-panel door. The second floor windows are half-height. Below the two right-hand ground floor windows are low cellar openings. Four corbel brackets for a timber gutter which is now replaced. Coped gable with kneelers and ridge stack to right. To the left is a lower two storey five bay wing with a central doorway and similar features, once probably a separate house. It has a ridge chimney at the left, and a chimney rising from the front wall at the right at the junction with the main building.

INTERIOR: ground floor of main building altered, with all internal walls demolished.

The last of Lancaster's alleyway inns and the only surviving building of James Street. Listing NGR: SD4767861662