2 and 4, France Street is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1986. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
2 and 4, France Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-landing-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 2 and 4, France Street, BB2 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SD 679 279
- Coordinates
- 53.74671, -2.48689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 2 and 4 France Street is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is built of brick, rendered with painted stone dressings, and has three storeys with a five-window range. The building features an eaves cornice and a central entrance that has been altered. The windows have painted stone wedge lintels and cills, with original 6/6 pane sashes still present on the first floor and in the right-hand two second-floor windows. The central second-floor window is blind. The house has ridge and end chimney stacks, which have been truncated.
Local climate
2 and 4, France Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- 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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