Quernmore Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Quernmore Park
- WRENN ID
- solitary-lancet-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Quernmore Park, LA2 9HN
- OS grid reference
- SD 516 627
- Coordinates
- 54.05859, -2.74009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quernmore Park is a country house built between 1795 and 1798, likely designed by Thomas Harrison and subsequently remodelled in 1842 by Alexander Mills. The house is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a hipped slate roof. It presents a symmetrical design, featuring a main block connected to pavilions set back on either side.
The main block is three stories high and five bays wide on its north, south, and east facades. It has sash windows with glazing bars, set within plain ashlar reveals, and a first-floor sill band. A cornice with a blocking course tops the building. The east front incorporates a tetrastyle Ionic portico added by Mills. Connecting links, one story high and three bays wide, join the main block to the pavilions. These links have blank niches above their windows, which are sash windows with glazing bars, except for the central window of the north link which is now unglazed.
The pavilions are each one bay wide and two stories high, with pedimented gables and a first-floor sill band. Their ground-floor windows are tripartite, with baseless Doric columns functioning as mullions. The southern pavilion has sashed windows with Doric columns as mullions; the first-floor sill has been lowered. The northern pavilion, currently in a derelict condition, features sashed windows with glazing bars.
Inside, Mills designed a two-story central hall with Grecian plasterwork. The ground floor features pilasters, with columns and pilasters above, opening onto a landing. A lantern and a coved ceiling complete the space. Drawings detailing proposed alterations by Mills are held in the Lancashire Record Office.
Local climate
Quernmore Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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