73, Town Road is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. House. 13 related planning applications.
73, Town Road
- WRENN ID
- quartered-cloister-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 73, Town Road, Croston, PR26 9RA
- OS grid reference
- SD 490 184
- Coordinates
- 53.66031, -2.7728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 19th-century house is located on Town Road, Croston. It is a double-depth, two-bay building constructed of brick with a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high and symmetrical in design. The front features a central panelled door set within a wooden doorcase topped with a stilted pediment. There are two sixteen-pane sash windows on each floor, all with stone sills and splayed stone heads. One chimney is located at the left gable, and two are at the right gable. The left gable wall, formerly a junction, has been rendered.
Local climate
73, Town Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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