Number 24 With Attached Forecourt Wall
NUMBER 24 WITH ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 24, CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290761
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 24 With Attached Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 24 WITH ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 24, CASTLE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290761
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Number 24 With Attached Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 24 WITH ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 24, CASTLE PARK
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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:
- NUMBER 24 WITH ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 24, 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 47404 61752
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/56 (South side) 22/12/53 No.24 with attached forecourt wall (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE PARK No.24)
GV II
House, now flats. Mid C18, altered c1800. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. Slate roof with gable chimney stacks to right and left. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys over a cellar and 5 bays. All the openings have moulded architraves. The windows all have 12-pane sashes, of diminishing height in successive storeys (some of the glazing in the top windows may be original). The central doorway, up 3 steps, has a door of 6 raised and fielded panels below an integral overlight with diagonal glazing bars trapping semi-ellipses above and below and circles at the sides. The level forecourt (on a site which slopes down from right to left) is enclosed by a low wall, whose returned side is ramped and bears cast-iron railings. On the far left, beyond the forecourt, there is a doorway at cellar level. The rear elevation has a full-height stair window above the back door and, to the right, a Venetian window on the first floor with Gothick glazing bars. Above and below it are coupled windows. INTERIOR: dogleg open-string staircase with 3 slender turned balusters per tread, an altered ramped handrail with a wreathed curtail. Doors with raised and fielded panels, including double doors under a semi-elliptical archway of c1800 which connects the first-floor reception rooms. Adam-style fireplace in one reception room. HISTORY: The house was used as offices by Paley and Austin (Architects) from c1870 until c1940.
Listing NGR: SD4740461761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383088
- 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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