Balustrades Around Central Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Garden feature.
Balustrades Around Central Gardens
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rood-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- Balustrades Around Central Gardens, Dalton Square
- OS grid reference
- SD 478 616
- Coordinates
- 54.04779, -2.79795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustrades around the formal garden in the center of Dalton Square were constructed around 1905, likely designed by Edward Mountford. Made of sandstone ashlar, the balustrades form four quadrants that create a broken elliptical enclosure within the rectangle formed by four streets. The structure is mostly level but steps down where necessary to accommodate the northward slope of the site, while the garden itself remains level. Each quadrant features a cyma recta plinth, with four runs of vase balusters positioned between rectangular panelled piers. At each end, the piers are taller and support a square wrought-iron torchere that holds a lantern with an egg-shaped globe. Notably, the torcheres are missing in early photographs of Dalton Square.
Local climate
Balustrades Around Central Gardens 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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