Storey Institute, Back Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Architectural frontispiece.
Storey Institute, Back Entrance
- WRENN ID
- iron-moat-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Architectural frontispiece
- Address
- Storey Institute, Back Entrance, Castle Park
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 617
- Coordinates
- 54.04899, -2.8045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Storey Institute back entrance is a former frontispiece to Cawthorne House, which was built in the 1770s by Richard Gillow for John Fenton Cawthorne and originally stood on the site of the present Post Office in Market Street. It was re-sited and reduced in height around 1906. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar and features a Roman Doric portico with two columns in antis, topped by a triglyph frieze and cornice. Above the portico are three courses of masonry with chamfered quoins and a small moulded cornice, followed by a single course that supports a pediment with dentils. Originally, there were two storeys between the portico and the pediment. The openings of the portico are adorned with elegant wrought-iron gates and screens, also from Cawthorne House, which feature elaborate scrolled cresting. The structure frames a rectangular opening in a single-storey building. Additionally, to the left, there is an ex-situ semicircular door hood from around 1700, which was formerly part of a building demolished in 1906 to allow for an extension of the Storey Institute on Meeting House Lane.
Local climate
Storey Institute, Back Entrance 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings