Craig Convalescent Home for Children is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1979. Children's home.
Craig Convalescent Home for Children
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chalk-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1979
- Type
- Children's home
- Address
- Craig Convalescent Home for Children, Elms Road, Morecambe
- OS grid reference
- SD 452 650
- Coordinates
- 54.07829, -2.83857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Craig Convalescent Home for Children is a house dating from around 1840, now serving as a children's home. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a punched finish and features hipped slate roofs. The building has a symmetrical design with a 1:3:1 composition, characterized by a plain frieze beneath oversailing moulded eaves and a central block that projects forward. Each side of the central block has wings that contain a window and a glazed door on the ground floor, with a single window above. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The central porch is adorned with pilasters featuring incised borders, a cornice, and a blocking course that supports railings with a central metal crest. There are chimneys on either side of the central block. Inside, the stair hall located at the rear of the entrance hall includes a dog-leg stair with an open string, stick balusters, and a mahogany handrail. Originally named 'The Parks', the house became known as the Craig Home in 1934.
Local climate
Craig Convalescent Home for Children sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 98% 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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