NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS

NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2, CASTLE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220811
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2, CASTLE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220811
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2, CASTLE PARK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2, 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 47304 61776

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/45 (South side) 22/12/53 No.2 and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE PARK No.2)

GV II

House, later a school, now flats. Early C19, altered C19 and C20. Sandstone ashlar and slate roof with coped gables and very prominent gable chimney stacks. Double-depth plan with a 2-storey service wing to left and, at the rear, a later semi-octagonal projection to house the staircase, which originally had been against the right-hand gable wall, as a round-headed window shows. 3 storeys above a basement, expressed as a plinth. 5 bays with a sill band on the first and second floors, and an eaves cornice. The tall windows have plain reveals and glazing bars, of 12 and 9 panes. The doorway, up 3 steps with nosings, has a moulded architrave under a cornice carried on fluted brackets. The door has an integral overlight and is panelled with 3 raised and fielded vertical panels above a square panel subdivided with framing into a concave-sided hollow diamond. To each side of the doorway is an area, protected by dwarf walls and cast-iron railings, with stick balusters and standards in the form of columns with urn finials. INTERIOR: flying geometrical staircase with cast-iron balusters of mid C19 form.

Listing NGR: SD4730461776

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Legacy System number:: 383077
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.