Warehouse on Corner of Elm Street is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. Warehouse.

Warehouse on Corner of Elm Street

WRENN ID
crooked-tin-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1970
Type
Warehouse
Address
Warehouse on Corner of Elm Street, St Georges Quay
OS grid reference
SD 473 622
Coordinates
54.05363, -2.80539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a warehouse, now converted into flats, located on the corner of Elm Street. It was constructed around 1760 and converted in approximately 1986. The warehouse was built alongside the neighbouring house, No. 25. The exterior features coursed roughly squared sandstone with ashlar dressings at the front, while the sides and rear are rendered rubble. The slate roof has a coped gable facing the road. The building is approximately 15 meters deep and has a facade that is about 6 meters wide, consisting of three storeys above a cellar.

The right side has raised quoins, and there is a central loading slot with a plain surround, flanked by single-pane windows on each floor. Originally, these windows were masonry panels with ventilation slits. The loading slot now features a balcony on each floor. The top floor does not have an opening on the right side, likely to reinforce the wall where a crane, preserved in its original wooden form, is located. Below the right window, there is a post box set into the wall. The side wall, now rendered, has a recent door and windows on all three storeys.

Inside, when examined in 1985 before the conversion, the original construction was visible, featuring softwood beams measuring 340mm by 200mm that spanned across the building from corbels at five centres, with two beams running from front to back in a rear room. Some ground floor beams had inscriptions that appeared to be genuine, including 'IA Apr 3 1760', 'Isaac Dixon 1773' written with candle blacking, and 'TB 1778' carved into the wood. The warehouse was built on plot 35.

Local climate

Warehouse on Corner of Elm Street 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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