Agreed, and that is the way the system works over here (or at least is supposed to).
The listing agency selects ‘typical’ buildings to preserve, say a building here or maybe a street there, rather than every building of x-type getting listed.
Some of the choices can be a bit odd and certainly there are some buildings listed which many people would in fact like to see demolished post-haste (sometimes including the architect themselves) because they are typical of a certain expression of a particular architectural trend that everyone except architectural historians wishes would be forgotten forever.
It also leads to nice little Tudor thatched cottages not being listed because the listing agency says we’ve got enough of those.
Oh good. I thought I was going bonkers. It’s funny but I don’t recognise that area at all even though I must have spent a fair bit of time in the Pendle Witch.
Lancaster seems to changed massively since I was last there which is admittedly [mumble, mumble] years ago.
As @eunasmith says - normally, it’s the ground floor that gets destroyed and as long as you only ever travel through British cities on the top deck of double-decker, you get quite a nice tour of British historical architecture.
In this case they seem to have plate-glassed the ground floor years ago and then moved in on the upper floors.
It does sort of work as you say. I’ve certainly seen a lot worse.
