List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: No name for this Entry
List entry Number: 1194984
Location
38-42, PARLIAMENT STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Lancashire | Lancaster | District Authority | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 22-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment: 13-Mar-1995
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 383252
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
LANCASTER
SD4862 PARLIAMENT STREET
1685-1/4/219 (East side)
22/12/53 Nos.38, 40 AND 42
(Formerly Listed as:
PARLIAMENT STREET
No.38)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARLIAMENT STREET
No.40)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARLIAMENT STREET
No.42)
GV II*
Toll house and inn, now vacant. c1787, altered C20. Built as
toll house for Skerton Bridge (qv), which was built 1783-87.
Designed by Thomas Harrison as part of his plan for the
approach to the new bridge. Sandstone ashlar with squared
coursed sandstone to the sides and slate roofs. Built on the
axis of the bridge, to terminate the view towards the south
when approaching Lancaster.
Symmetrical, with taller 2-storey 3-bay centre linked by
screen walls to 2-storey 3-bay pavilions with pedimented
gables. All the front windows with glazing bar sashes behind
temporary covers. The central block (No.40) has a plain ashlar
lower storey, and the bays of the upper storey are separated
by paired engaged Ionic columns carrying a plain frieze,
dentilled cornice, and a blocking course. Above the central
window is a blank tablet, and above the outer windows are
blind rectangular recesses. The doorway has a pediment carried
on plain console brackets and a door of 6 vertical panels
below a horizontal glazed panel. The roof is hipped and has
chimneys to left and right.
The screen walls are each of 5 bays under a cornice and
blocking course and have alternating round-headed and
rectangular blind recesses.
The pavilions have storey bands below the moulded pediments.
Each has a blind recess in the centre of the 1st floor, and
has a chimney on the front and rear gables. The return wall of
each pavilion is of 3 bays (that nearest to the front blind)
with a central single-storey ashlar porch which has a cornice
and blocking course and has pilasters flanking the doorway. At
the rear the central block has a tall stair window and is
connected to No.38 (to the south) by a single-storey late C20
restaurant extension.
INTERIOR: a stair with stick balusters is visible through the
window of the central block.
Listing NGR: SD4805662279
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National Grid Reference: SD 48056 62279
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