26, Castle Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. Service wing.
26, Castle Park
- WRENN ID
- rooted-merlon-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1970
- Type
- Service wing
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 617
- Coordinates
- 54.04902, -2.80468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Castle Park is a former service wing to No. 24, now part of the Storey Institute on Meeting House Lane. It was built in the early 19th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with quoins and features a hipped slate roof, which no longer has chimney stacks. It has a double-depth plan, is two storeys high, and consists of one bay, with the doorway located on the left side. All openings have raised plain surrounds. The first-floor windows are paired and contain 12-pane sashes. The left-hand return wall features a window on each floor; the first-floor window is sashed with glazing bars and has a blocked loading doorway to its left, situated near the back entrance to the Storey Institute. Historically, the building served as a drawing office for the architects Paley and Austin when they occupied No. 24 Castle Park from around 1870 until approximately 1940.
Local climate
26, Castle Park 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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