Lodge to Williamson Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge to Williamson Park
- WRENN ID
- crooked-pavement-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Williamson Park, Wyresdale Road, LA1 3DY
- OS grid reference
- SD 487 611
- Coordinates
- 54.04351, -2.7848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lodge, dating from 1880, situated on Wyresdale Road in Lancaster. Built of squared coursed sandstone with a slate roof, the lodge features a distinctive semi-octagonal front. The main part of the building has two bays facing forward, with an additional bay on each side projecting as canted sections. The ground-floor windows are sash windows without glazing bars, and are round-headed with a moulded impost band. The first-floor windows also have sash windows without glazing bars, and feature rebated surrounds and a sill band. A single-storey wing, set back to the right, has a hipped roof and incorporates a timber porch with arcaded round-headed lights. A chimney is visible on the ridge of the main house.
Williamson Park, of which the lodge forms part, was developed on the site of former quarries and moorland. Large-scale development began in the 1870s, funded by James Williamson (Senior) and designed by Mr Maclean of Castle Donnington. James Williamson (Junior) later gifted the park to Lancaster Corporation in 1881.
Local climate
Lodge to Williamson 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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