1 Castle Hill
1, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220647
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Castle Hill
- Statutory Address:
- 1, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220647
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Castle Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, CASTLE HILL
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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:
- 1, CASTLE HILL
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 47486 61846
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/09/2014
SD4761NW
1685-1/6/29
LANCASTER
CASTLE HILL (East side)
Number 1
18/02/70
GV
II
Warehouse and workshop, now flats. 1770, gutted by fire 1985, then converted. Probably by Richard Gillow. Squared and coursed sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Irregular L-shaped plan, with a double-depth front range and a rear wing extending to the left into a side wing behind Gillow's former office. 3 storeys with a central loading slot flanked by windows, all with plain stone surrounds. On the ground floor the centre has recent glazed doors. The windows, of which the one to the right has been inserted into a former doorway, are of 16 panes with glazing bars with lozenges at the intersections and Gothick intersecting tracery in the head (a pattern which matches the doors of a bookcase in the Gillow pattern book of 1770). The first and second-floor windows have, respectively,12 and 9 fixed panes. To the right of the top stage of the loading slot are the stone brackets of a former crane. The wing to the rear of No.1a Castle Hill (qv) has two C17 chamfered doorways on the ground floor.
HISTORY: built for the manufacture and display of furniture by the Gillows, who were described by Thomas Pennant in his 'Tour of Scotland' as 'very ingenious cabinet-makers... who fabricate most excellent and neat goods at remarkably cheap rates, which they export to London and the plantations'.
This warehouse was described by Richard Gillow as 'newly built' in June 1770.
Listing NGR: SD4749061838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383062
- 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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