2 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.

2 King Street

WRENN ID
tall-screen-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1974
Type
Commercial
Address
2 King Street, BB2 2DJ
OS grid reference
SD 681 279
Coordinates
53.74738, -2.48491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 2 King Street is a Grade II listed building dating from 1745. It is constructed of painted red brick and stands three storeys high. The entrance features a panelled centre door topped by a traceried round-arched fanlight, flanked by Tuscan half-columns and a raked broken pediment. The first floor includes five 12-pane sash windows, each with painted flat brick arched lintels and stone sills. The building also has two early 20th-century shop fronts. Number 2, along with Number 4, forms a group of buildings of architectural significance.

Local climate

2 King 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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