Lancaster Cemetery Lodge 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.

Lancaster Cemetery Lodge

WRENN ID
crumbling-lead-holly
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
Lancaster Cemetery Lodge, Quernmore Road, LA1 3JT
OS grid reference
SD 490 617
Coordinates
54.04925, -2.77933
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lancaster Cemetery Lodge is a building associated with Lancaster Cemetery, which opened in 1855. It is likely designed by Edward Paley. The lodge is constructed from squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of a two-storey cross-wing on the left with an attic, and a one-storey range on the right, also with an attic.

In the Gothic Revival style, the cross-wing has a gable wall with one bay, featuring a canted bay window that includes four lights with transoms and trefoiled heads in the upper lights. The first-floor window has two lights with a transom, trefoiled upper lights, and a trefoiled opening beneath a pointed hoodmould that extends around the wing as a string course. The gable is coped with kneelers.

At the angle between the cross-wing and the main range, there is a single-storey porch with a parapet decorated with blind foiled recesses. The porch doorway is moulded and pointed, topped with a hoodmould, and the door is fitted with wrought-iron strap hinges. To the right, the main range features a window similar to the first-floor window of the cross-wing and a hipped dormer that lights the upper storey. The right-hand gable wall has coping with kneelers and a canted single-storey bay window. The left-hand return wall of the cross-wing includes two hipped attic dormers, and the rear wall has a chimney.

Local climate

Lancaster Cemetery Lodge 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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