Dock Acres and Barn Adjoining to South is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. House, barn.

Dock Acres and Barn Adjoining to South

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1968
Type
House, barn
OS grid reference
SD 514 727
Coordinates
54.14854, -2.74531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dock Acres is a house, now used as a site office, likely built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a slate roof. The building is 2 and a half storeys tall, with an extension on the right side.

The central doorway, which has a plain stone surround, is now blocked. To the left of the doorway is another door with plain reveals. On the right side, there are two sashed windows with glazing bars, separated by a square stone mullion, and they have plain stone lintels and sills. On the first floor, to the left, there is a sashed window with glazing bars and plain reveals. To the right, there is a Venetian window surround made of plain stone, featuring sashed windows with glazing bars. The attic has two windows with plain reveals.

The right-hand extension includes a doorway with plain reveals and a modern window with plain reveals on the ground floor, a sashed window with glazing bars and plain reveals on the first floor, and an attic window with plain reveals, glazing bars, and a pivoted casement. The rear wall is partly obscured by later buildings.

On the left end of the building, there are sashed windows with glazing bars and plain reveals: one on the ground floor and two on the first floor. In the center, there is a blocked opening with a plain stone surround, above which is a stair window with plain reveals and small leaded panes.

Inside, the central room features free Greek revival details from the early to mid-19th century. The Venetian window has an elliptical inner relieving arch, attached columns with Adam-style capitals, and a naturalistic vine frieze. The barn adjoining to the south has a wide entrance with plain reveals.

Local climate

Dock Acres and Barn Adjoining to South 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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