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

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey