76, Preston Old Road is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
76, Preston Old Road
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-merlon-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- 76, Preston Old Road, Freckleton, PR4 1PD
- OS grid reference
- SD 433 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75302, -2.86136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 76 on Preston Old Road is a house dated 1780, originally numbered 62. It is constructed of hand-made brick and features a tiled roof with gable chimneys. The building has a double-depth, two-bay plan and stands three storeys high with a symmetrical facade. The ground floor is rendered, and there is a central door set in a round-headed recess that has a keystone and imposts, which are inscribed with the letters M and 1780. There are two windows on each of the upper floors; the ground floor windows are large and square with nine panes, while the upper floor windows have gauged brick heads and six panes. The right side of the building has a narrow vertical rectangular window on the second floor. The rear of the house features segmental-headed windows on the ground and first floors, with nine panes on the ground floor and low three-light casements with glazing bars on the first floor, along with a stairlight in the center. The interior has a four-room plan with a central passage and staircase, although it has been altered.
Local climate
76, Preston Old Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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