152 and 154, South Road is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. School, house.
152 and 154, South Road
- WRENN ID
- wild-entrance-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- 152 and 154, South Road, Bretherton
- OS grid reference
- SD 476 204
- Coordinates
- 53.67755, -2.79408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
152 and 154 South Road is a former school, now divided into two houses, dated 1653 on the lintel and altered over time. The building is constructed of roughcast brick with a common brick rear and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with three bays and stands two storeys high.
No. 154, on the left, has a single-storey gabled porch made of squared sandstone, which includes a segmental-headed doorway. This porch features a large rectangular datestone with an inscription in raised lettering that reads:
"THIS FREE SCHOOL WAS ERECTED AND BUILT AT THE PROPER COSTS AND CHARGES OF JAMES FLETCHER OF LONDON MARCANT AND AT THE REQUEST OF MISTRIS JANE FLETCHER HIS WIFE WHO WAS BORNE IN THIS TOWNE. JUNE THE FOURTEENTH ANNODONI 1653."
Each floor of the porch has one window on either side, all of which are 19th-century four-pane sashes. No. 152, to the right, has two similar but smaller windows on each floor. The building features a ridge chimney at the junction and a gable chimney at the right end. The rear of the building is of less interest.
Inside, the interiors have been altered, but No. 154 retains two stopped quarter-round moulded beams, while No. 152 has a roughly-hewn chamfered beam that is cambered in the center.
Local climate
152 and 154, South 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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