1, Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. A Late 18th Century House, flats. 1 related planning application.
1, Water Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-basalt-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- House, flats
- Period
- Late 18th Century
- Address
- 1, Water Street, LA1 1HF
- OS grid reference
- SD 476 619
- Coordinates
- 54.05107, -2.80034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Water Street is a house that has been converted into flats. It dates from the late 18th century and was restored and converted around 1985. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a slate hipped roof with two chimneys on the ridge. It has a symmetrical design with three storeys above cellars and five bays, which include sill bands and a moulded cornice.
The windows are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals, while the central bay features tripartite windows with flat-faced stone mullions. The doorway resembles a Venetian window, flanked by Tuscan pilasters that rise from a sill band. The outer pair of pilasters supports an open pediment, and the inner pair separates the doorway from the flanking lights, supporting the architrave of a round-headed fanlight with Gothick glazing that extends into the pediment. The door itself has raised and fielded panels, is recessed, and has panelled reveals.
There are five external steps with nosings, and the railings are curved in plan. The left-hand return facade, which faces Cable Street, consists of three bays and has similar glazing bar sashes with plain reveals, with a chimney located on the left side. Historically, the building appears (though somewhat inaccurately) in an engraving of Lancaster from Green Ayre, created by JC Ibbotson in 1807.
Local climate
1, Water Street 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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- 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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