Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. House.
Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-rubblework-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Custom House, 3a, Overton
- OS grid reference
- SD 426 560
- Coordinates
- 53.99771, -2.87622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House is a house, believed to have been a former customs house, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed from pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys with an attic. The windows are modern and include glazing bars. The east wall displays chamfered quoins and has a window on both floors, with the ground-floor window being smaller and having plain reveals. There is a chimney on the north gable. The south gable wall also has chamfered quoins and openings with plain stone surrounds. The ground floor is covered by a later verandah, with a window on the left side and two windows on the first floor, plus one in the attic. The door is located on the right side.
Local climate
Old Custom House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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, 13 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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