16, Castle Park

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/50 (South side) 22/12/53 No.16

GV II

House, formerly 2 houses, originally part of a row of 5, now offices. Mid C18, raised and altered C19. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings on the front and side, coursed rubble on the rear with a rendered second storey. Slate roof hipped to the left with a chimney set back towards the rear, and a gable chimney stack to the right. T-plan with a double-depth front range, with a 2-storey bow window on the back wall to the left, and a rear wing extended into a former outbuilding. 3 storeys above a cellar and 6 bays under an eaves cornice, with the doorway in the third bay and with chamfered quoins to the left, and to the right on the second floor above the junction with No.14 (qv). The sill bands on first and second floors return around the left-hand gable wall, where there is a window on each floor. All the windows have moulded architraves, as does the doorway, and are sashed without glazing bars. The doorway is approached up a flight of 4 steps with railings of cast-iron 'turned' balusters and standards with urn finials. The recessed door has 9 panels and an integral overlight. Rebuilt stonework to the right of the door, and the Ordnance Survey 5 feet to one mile map surveyed in 1845, suggest that there were originally paired entrance doorways in the 2 central bays.

Listing NGR: SD4735661760