1a Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. House.
1a Castle Hill
- WRENN ID
- sharp-hall-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 618
- Coordinates
- 54.04992, -2.80348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1A Castle Hill is a late 18th-century house that has been converted into offices. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof and gable chimney stacks. The building has a double-depth plan, with the entrance located in the right-hand bay. It stands three storeys tall above a basement, which is expressed as a plinth, and has three bays with raised quoins and an eaves cornice.
The entrance doorway is adorned with a moulded architrave and a frieze inscribed 'GILLOW & Co', topped with a simple cornice on fluted consoles. The door itself is approached by three recessed steps and consists of five panels, with all but the upper panel being raised and fielded. The windows throughout the house have plain raised surrounds and are sashed with glazing bars, featuring 12 panes on the ground and first floors and 9 panes on the second floor. The basement plinth is painted and has two openings that were likely originally shuttered but now contain glass bricks.
Historically, this building served as the office for Gillow & Co during much of the 19th century, until 1887, and is located next to its warehouse at No. 1 Castle Hill.
Local climate
1a Castle Hill 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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