Numbers 18 and 18a Including Attached Privy House is a Grade II* listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Coach house, stables. 1 related planning application.

Numbers 18 and 18a Including Attached Privy House

WRENN ID
tenth-bastion-sienna
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1953
Type
Coach house, stables
Address
Numbers 18 and 18a Including Attached Privy House, Castle Park, LA1 1YQ
OS grid reference
SD 473 617
Coordinates
54.04913, -2.80535
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 18 and 18A, including the attached privy house, are a coach house, stables, and privy dating from the early 18th century, with alterations around 1975. The building is now used as flats above garages. It is constructed of roughcast sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings to the front elevation and roughly coursed rubble at the rear. The roof is covered in stone slate, and there is a brick gable stack on the right-hand side.

The front elevation is almost symmetrical, with two storeys and six bays. A sill band runs across the first floor. The ground floor features a pair of coach house doorways at the centre, set under semi-elliptical moulded arches with prominent keystones rising from stout ashlar piers. These are flanked on either side by stable doorways under plain lintels; the stable door to the left has been widened. To the left of this is a narrow doorway with a moulded architrave, a door with six raised and fielded panels, and a recent fanlight. On the far right is a window with a raised plain surround. The first floor has two round-headed windows, originally circular pitching eyes, with moulded architraves, keystones, and wedge-shaped impost blocks. These are flanked by two windows with raised plain surrounds, and all the windows have recent eight-pane sashes.

To the rear, set into the corner of the garden wall of Number 16, is a large 18th-century privy house built of handmade brick with some ashlar dressings. The convex facade appears to have two storeys and three bays with a central doorway with a moulded architrave and panelled door, narrow vertical windows on either side, and three blind lunettes above. The tall, single-storey interior contains seven privy seats, including a low child's seat in the angle. The building was originally constructed as the coach house, stables, and privy for Castle Park House, Number 20 Castle Park.

Local climate

Numbers 18 and 18a Including Attached Privy House 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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