46 and 48, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1974. Pair of houses, shop. 5 related planning applications.

46 and 48, Church Street

WRENN ID
frozen-rood-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1974
Type
Pair of houses, shop
Address
46 and 48, Church Street, LA1 1LH
OS grid reference
SD 476 618
Coordinates
54.04984, -2.80089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

46 and 48 Church Street is a pair of houses that have been converted into a single shop. They date from the mid-18th century and have been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with gable chimney stacks that have brick caps. It has a double-depth plan that extends to the rear and stands three storeys high over cellars, with four bays. The upper floors have chamfered quoins and an eaves cornice.

The ground floor was modified around 1990 and now features a timber shop front with a cornice and glazed doorways on either side. The upper floor windows have raised plain surrounds, and the lintels of the second-floor windows are connected to a band that forms the frieze of the eaves cornice. It appears that the surrounds have been enlarged by lowering their sills, and the windows themselves are glazing bar sashes that were inserted around 1990. Inside, the dogleg open-stringed staircase between the front and back rooms of No. 48 remains between the first and second floors.

Local climate

46 and 48, Church Street 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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