20, CASTLE PARK
20, CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194943
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CASTLE PARK
- Statutory Address:
- 20, CASTLE PARK
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- Date:
- 2000-08-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/02662/15
- Rights:
- © Mr Charles Satterly. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194943
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CASTLE PARK
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, CASTLE PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 20, CASTLE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47383 61756
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/53 (South side) 22/12/53 No.20 Castle Park House (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE PARK No.20 (with stables))
GV II*
House. 1720, altered C19. Built for William Birdsworth, a lawyer, and his wife Margaret. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, roughcast on the front elevation and lined out as ashlar blocks between chamfered quoins. Slate roof with a small flat-roofed dormer, and gable chimney stacks. 3 storeys above cellar and attics and 5 bays, with a central square projection at the rear to contain the staircase. All the windows have moulded architraves and 8-pane sashes. Above the central first-floor window is a datestone inscribed: BW+M 1720. The elaborate painted stone doorcase has engaged Ionic columns supporting a pulvinated frieze, an entablature with dentils, and a segmental open pediment, panelled both in its soffit and its tympanum. Its door has 12 raised and fielded panels, and is recessed between similarly panelled reveals. INTERIOR: entrance hall has marble floor. Double-depth room to left has very good painted raised and fielded panelling with Corinthian pilasters. Right-hand room has similar unpainted panelling, but with Ionic pilasters. The room was probably altered in the C19 when a front cloakroom was created and the rear wall extended. The first floor is divided conventionally and has similar panelling with Doric pilasters. The second floor has a matching dado which is said to be a C19 alteration. The fine dogleg staircase rises to attic level and has full-height panelling until the half-landing above the first floor and thereafter a panelled dado. It has an open string with carved scrolled brackets, 2 turned balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail. HISTORY: built by William Birdsworth, a lawyer, and subsequently owned by Allan Harrison, the Recorder of Lancaster between 1731 and 1747, who probably added the doorcase and made many of the internal alterations, including the link with No.22 (qv) to the left. His daughter and heiress, Ann, married Lt. Col. George Wilson, the builder of Abbot Hall, Kendal. The house was owned by the Satterthwaite family from c1780 to 1932.
Listing NGR: SD4738361754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383085
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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