Lancaster House — School Street

Detached two-bay four-storey double-pile townhouse, extant 1852, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 1990-1, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber boarded box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Repointed red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation on terracotta tiled chamfered plinth; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings originally in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows having overlights with two-over-over-two sidelights having overlights. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with sill course (first floor) or cut-granite sills (upper floors), and repointed red brick voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with two cut-granite steps, doorcase with engaged Doric columns on padstones supporting iron-covered cornice on rosette-detailed "triglyph" frieze on entablature framing replacement glazed uPVC door. Set back from line of street with concrete footpath to front.