Tower House and Former Stables and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House, stables, barn. 3 related planning applications.

Tower House and Former Stables and Barn Adjoining

WRENN ID
tenth-kitchen-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1967
Type
House, stables, barn
OS grid reference
SD 499 646
Coordinates
54.07572, -2.76633
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A late 18th-century house with adjoining stables and barn, originally part of Halton Hall. The house is constructed of sandstone rubble with slate roofs. The three-story north facade, overlooking the road, features a battlemented parapet and is three bays wide. The ground floor has two sashed windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds, located in bays two and three. The first floor windows are sashed with glazing bars, with moulded architraves; the outer two have cyma cornices, and the central one has a moulded pediment. The second-floor windows have plain stone surrounds, with the outer two windows blank and the central window being a sashed window with glazing bars. The east wall of the tower has a sashed window with glazing bars in a plain stone surround on the first floor, and a six-pane sash in a similar surround on the second floor. A two-bay, two-story portion of the house extends southwards under the same roof as the adjoining stables, with openings having plain reveals in the east wall. One window is a sashed window with glazing bars. The west wall of the tower is blank except for a ground-floor window with plain reveals and a first-floor window with a plain stone surround. Lean-to extensions are present at the rear. The west wall of the former stables has two wide entrances with modern doors; the southern door has dressed jambs. Between these entrances are two doors with plain reveals. A wide, segmental-arched entrance is located towards the southern end, alongside a door with plain reveals. A smaller, three-story, battlemented tower is situated at the south end, with a window with plain reveals on its first floor and an opening with a pointed arch on the second floor, which has been filled with stone openings for a dovecote.

Local climate

Tower House and Former Stables and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 98% 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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