1, Queen Square is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. House, doctors' surgery. 3 related planning applications.
1, Queen Square
- WRENN ID
- sombre-merlon-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- House, doctors' surgery
- Address
- 1, Queen Square, LA1 1RN
- OS grid reference
- SD 476 614
- Coordinates
- 54.04659, -2.80167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Queen Square is a house that now serves as a doctors' surgery. It was built in the late 18th century, altered in the 19th century, and restored around 1980. The building is made of sandstone ashlar and has a slate roof. It has a double-depth plan and features a symmetrical design with two storeys above cellars and five bays. The façade includes a cornice and a parapet with coping. The windows are sash style without glazing bars, featuring plain reveals and projecting sills. Most cellar openings are glazed.
The entrance doorway is framed by a lugged stone architrave and topped with a pediment. The overlight has glazing bars arranged in a curved intersecting design, and the door consists of six raised and fielded panels. Access to the door is via four steps with nosings and iron railings. The building has chimneys on the gables, with the left-hand chimney made of brick and the right-hand chimney rendered.
Inside, the arch between the front hall and the stair hall is supported by fluted Doric pilasters. The dogleg staircase features an open string, three turned balusters per tread, turned newels, and a ramped handrail, finishing with a curtail.
Local climate
1, Queen Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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