Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Custom House
- WRENN ID
- muted-sill-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Custom House, Glasson Dock, Thurnham
- OS grid reference
- SD 443 563
- Coordinates
- 53.99982, -2.85029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Custom House is a former custom house, now used for storage, dating from the late 18th century. It is built from squared sandstone rubble and topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. On the north wall, there are two windows on the first floor at the outer sides, with a door beneath the right-hand window, also framed in plain stone. A chimney is located in the centre of this wall. The east gable wall, which faces the slipway and dock, has a wide doorway on the ground floor with plain reveals and a stone lintel, above which is a window. The south wall has a window at each floor level, positioned at the western end.
Local climate
Custom House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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