4, Castle Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. House. 1 related planning application.

4, Castle Park

WRENN ID
final-pavement-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1953
Type
House
Address
4, Castle Park, LA1 1YQ
OS grid reference
SD 473 617
Coordinates
54.04927, -2.80618
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 Castle Park is a house built in the late 18th century and altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has a prominent gable chimney stack on the left and another stack on the right that it shares with No. 2. The house has a double-depth plan with a rear wing on the right and stands three storeys above a cellar, with three bays on the front.

The windows have plain raised surrounds and 4-pane sashes, except for the central window on the second floor, which is blind and has 12 fixed panes. The heads of the other second-floor windows appear to have been raised, and the lower parts of their surrounds have been infilled. The doorway, located in the right-hand bay, has a plain raised surround topped with a moulded cornice. The original doorway in the central bay features an integral rectangular overlight with glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern above a square panel, which is subdivided with framing to create a concave-sided hollow diamond. To the right of the door, there are railings with cast-iron arrow-head balusters.

Inside, most doorways have reeded architraves. At the back of the entrance hall, there is a three-bay arcade with square pilasters supporting semi-elliptical arches. From the centre of this arcade, a dogleg staircase rises, featuring an open string and stick balusters. The ground-floor front room includes window shutters and a triple alcove with semi-elliptical arches.

Local climate

4, Castle Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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