Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK
1685-1/6/56 (South side)
22/12/53 No.24
with attached forecourt wall
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE PARK
No.24)

GV II

House, now flats. Mid C18, altered c1800. Coursed sandstone
rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins. Slate roof
with gable chimney stacks to right and left. Double-depth
plan.
3 storeys over a cellar and 5 bays. All the openings have
moulded architraves. The windows all have 12-pane sashes, of
diminishing height in successive storeys (some of the glazing
in the top windows may be original). The central doorway, up 3
steps, has a door of 6 raised and fielded panels below an
integral overlight with diagonal glazing bars trapping
semi-ellipses above and below and circles at the sides. The
level forecourt (on a site which slopes down from right to
left) is enclosed by a low wall, whose returned side is ramped
and bears cast-iron railings. On the far left, beyond the
forecourt, there is a doorway at cellar level.
The rear elevation has a full-height stair window above the
back door and, to the right, a Venetian window on the first
floor with Gothick glazing bars. Above and below it are
coupled windows.
INTERIOR: dogleg open-string staircase with 3 slender turned
balusters per tread, an altered ramped handrail with a
wreathed curtail. Doors with raised and fielded panels,
including double doors under a semi-elliptical archway of
c1800 which connects the first-floor reception rooms.
Adam-style fireplace in one reception room.
HISTORY: The house was used as offices by Paley and Austin
(Architects) from c1870 until c1940.

Listing NGR: SD4740461761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578941

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)