Number 4 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. House. 4 related planning applications.
Number 4 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- salt-corridor-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 4 and Attached Railings, High Street, LA1 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SD 475 615
- Coordinates
- 54.04713, -2.80315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house, dating to around 1775, with alterations from the 19th century, built for John Rawlinson. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. The roof is slate-covered, with gable stacks to the left and right. The house is two storeys with an attic and a basement, and originally comprised 5 bays, topped by an eaves cornice with a balustrade, with a three-bay centrepiece culminating in a pediment. This pediment contains a Diocletian window with a moulded architrave. The windows, apart from the Diocletian window, all have moulded architraves and sash windows with glazing bars; the ground floor windows have 4 panes, and those on the first floor have 12. The doorway features engaged Tuscan columns and an open pediment containing a semi-elliptical fanlight with intersecting Gothic glazing bars. The original door, accessed by two steps with nosings, has raised and fielded panels, arranged in a diamond pattern below the lock rail. Cast-iron railings with urn finials on the standards are attached to the property on either side. Inside, a dogleg open-string staircase features carved brackets, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail. The archway to the entrance hall is elliptical, with fluted pilasters and scrolled decoration in the spandrels, while the first-floor archway has trefoil pilasters.
Local climate
Number 4 and Attached Railings 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 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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