The Palm House
THE PALM HOUSE, WILLIAMSON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195061
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Palm House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PALM HOUSE, WILLIAMSON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195061
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Palm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PALM HOUSE, WILLIAMSON 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:
- THE PALM HOUSE, WILLIAMSON 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 48951 61326
Details
LANCASTER
SD4861 WILLIAMSON PARK 1685-1/5/320 The Palm House 18/02/70 (Formerly Listed as: WYRESDALE ROAD Palm House in Williamson Park)
GV II
Palm house, now butterfly house. c1909, damaged by fire 1949 and restored c1985. By Belcher and Joass. Brick on sandstone plinth, with timber and metal glazing bars, and painted render and timber columns and entablature. Rectangular plan, with a convex hipped glass roof. West facade symmetrical, with rusticated brick end piers, and 3 bays to each side of an open semicircular porch of 6 Tuscan columns. The bays are separated by similar columns and contain windows with glazing bars. The Doric entablature has urns above each column. An attic, above the main cornice and below the glazed roof, has circular glazed openings in each bay, separated by pilasters, and a central Diocletian window. Within the porch the front wall has 3 tall glazed openings, the central one wider and containing the double doors, which project forwards under a segmental pediment. Both return walls are of 5 bays, with similar columns and entablature. HISTORY: the Palm House was one of the improvements to Williamson Park which Lord Ashton offered to pay for in 1904. It stands opposite the entrance to the Ashton Memorial (qv), which formed the main element of the scheme and which was opened in 1909. (Ashworth S: The Lino King: York: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD4895161326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ashworth, S, The Lino King, (1989)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 25 Lancashire,
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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