Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK
1685-1/6/48 (South side)
22/12/53 No.8

GV II

House. Mid C18, raised 1854. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar
dressings, and slate roof with gable chimney stacks.
Double-depth plan with a rear wing to the left, which may have
been altered from a former stable. 3 storeys above a cellar,
and 2 wide bays with chamfered quoins, nosed sill courses on
the first and second floors and a moulded eaves cornice. All
the openings have moulded architraves. The windows have large
16-pane sashes, and the doorway has a recessed door with
fielded panels including a concave-sided hollow diamond in the
lower half, an upper glazed panel, and an overlight with
glazing bars forming a pattern based on a pointed oval.
Because of the sequence of raising the party walls to
accommodate an extra storey, the top storey appears to be
offset about 50cm to the left, overlapping the gable of No.10
(qv), which has only 2 storeys, and overlapped in its turn by
the front wall of No.6 (qv).
INTERIOR: reeded architraves to doorways. A dogleg open-string
staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail, up to
the first floor, with a rib-vaulted ceiling at landing level.
An earlier staircase from the first to the second floors, not
continuous with the first staircase and perhaps moved upstairs
when the house was raised, with 2 slender turned balusters per
tread.
HISTORY: the title deeds include a plan and notes for 'taking
down a part of this dwelling house... and built and reared the
additional height, Nov. 3rd 1854'. The earliest deed, of 1753,
is a mortgage by Thomas Mackrel, barber and peruke maker, who
had inherited a moiety of 'one messuage or dwelling house, one
maltkiln, one stable...etc'.

Listing NGR: SD4732861766

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489542

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)