13, Great John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. House.

13, Great John Street

WRENN ID
unlit-parapet-kestrel
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 478 616
Coordinates
54.04846, -2.79784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 13 Great John Street is a house built around 1800, with later alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof that is hipped on the right side. The building has a rectangular plan and is situated on a shallow site at the corner of Dalton Square. It stands three storeys high and has three bays, along with a basement that is expressed as a plinth made of larger stones. Notable architectural details include a moulded gutter cornice and a large chimney stack on the left-hand gable.

The raised entrance is accessed by a flight of six steps with nosings, which run parallel to the wall and are protected by iron-bar railings. These railings have a ramped handrail and turned baluster standards topped with urn finials. The doorway features plain reveals beneath a cornice supported by fluted consoles, and it has narrow double doors, each with three panels. The windows, including those on the one-bay return wall facing Dalton Square, have plain reveals and are sashed without glazing bars. There are also two cellar openings that are partly blocked and partly glazed.

Local climate

13, Great John Street 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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