5, Dalton Square is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. House, council office. 2 related planning applications.
5, Dalton Square
- WRENN ID
- inner-newel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- House, council office
- Address
- 5, Dalton Square, LA1 1PP
- OS grid reference
- SD 479 616
- Coordinates
- 54.048, -2.79711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Dalton Square is a house that has been converted into council offices. It was built between 1801 and 1809 for Jacob Ridley. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, with a doorway and a rear wing on the left side, and chimney stacks on both gables. The structure has three tall storeys above a cellar and consists of three bays, with a sill band on the first floor and an eaves cornice.
The doorway, located in the left-hand bay, is accessed by a flight of four steps that run parallel to the wall. It features a pedimented Ionic sandstone doorcase. The door itself has nine raised and fielded panels and is topped with an overlight that has radiating glazing bars. The steps leading to the doorway are enclosed by bar railings with ball finials on the standards. All the windows have plain reveals and glazing bar sashes, with twelve panes on the ground and first floors and nine panes on the second floor. There is a single-storey extension on the right-hand side, but it is not of special interest.
Local climate
5, Dalton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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