Dukes Theatre is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Theatre. 8 related planning applications.
Dukes Theatre
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pewter-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- Dukes Theatre, Moor Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 479 617
- Coordinates
- 54.04907, -2.79658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dukes Theatre is a parish church that was built in 1796 and converted into a theatre in 1971. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar and has a slate roof. The south wall, which faces Moor Lane, features five bays with raised quoins and a plinth. There is a doorway on the left side and an upper row of low round-headed windows that originally illuminated the gallery. These windows have plain reveals and projecting sills, with recent joinery that includes glazing bars. The fourth bay now contains a doorway. The main doorway is topped with a cornice hood supported by plain console brackets.
The west wall also has five bays and similar windows but is more elaborately designed. The ground-floor windows in the second and fourth bays have cornices on console brackets, and the stonework of the central bay projects slightly forward, topped with a triangular pediment above the gallery window level. Above this, on either side at a higher level, are small windows with plain reveals. At the top of the gable, there is a small pedimented bellcote with a round-arched opening. To the east and north of the building, there are 20th-century extensions.
Local climate
Dukes Theatre 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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