Ortner House, with Flanking Walls and Shed Attached to South West is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. House.
Ortner House, with Flanking Walls and Shed Attached to South West
- WRENN ID
- peeling-attic-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 532 544
- Coordinates
- 53.98406, -2.71388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ortner House, built in 1769, is a house constructed from stuccoed rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It features a double-depth plan and presents a symmetrical design with two storeys and three bays, complemented by chamfered quoins. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have architraves. The central bay contains a door that is sheltered by a Doric porch, which has a triglyph frieze and the year '1769' inscribed within a moulded pediment. The sides of the porch have been filled in, and an outer door has been added. Gable chimneys are present on the roof.
Notably, the right-hand gable wall has a lintel inscribed '1651' that has been re-set above a cellar window. Flanking the facade are rubble garden walls, with the left wall forming one side of a slate-roofed shed that likely dates from the 19th century. This shed features a wide entrance with a stone lintel on its opposite wall, facing north-west. The gable wall of the shed that faces the house includes a re-used chamfered doorway and a re-set plaque, which reads: 'THOMAS DRINKELL AND MARYE HIS WIF SET US HERE ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY SECOND YEARE WHOEVER LOOKS UPON THIS THING LET HIM FEARE GOD AND HONOUR THE KING.'
Local climate
Ortner House, with Flanking Walls and Shed Attached to South West sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
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