586 and 588, Preston Road is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. A Late C18 or early C19 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
586 and 588, Preston Road
- WRENN ID
- tenth-sentry-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 586 and 588, Preston Road, Clayton-Le-Woods, PR6 7EB
- OS grid reference
- SD 579 235
- Coordinates
- 53.70708, -2.63909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 586 and 588 on Preston Road are a pair of weavers' cottages dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They feature a watershot coursed sandstone facade with rubble sides and rear, and have quoins and a slate roof with gable chimneys. The cottages are designed in a double pile, 2-bay plan and stand 2½ storeys high, including a basement. The design is symmetrical, with coupled stone doorcases at the center. Each cottage has one window on the ground and first floors, all with plain stone cases; No. 586 has sash windows, while No. 588 has altered windows. The basement loomshop windows are partly blocked, with lugs for shutters still visible at No. 588. The rear of the cottages features partly blocked 3-light basement windows and basement doors, while above, there is an oblong window opening on each floor of each cottage (with altered glazing) and small modern bathroom windows near the corners.
Local climate
586 and 588, Preston Road 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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