Ash Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ash Tree House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-zinc-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ash Tree House, 2, Church Street, Kirkham, PR4 2SE
- OS grid reference
- SD 427 321
- Coordinates
- 53.7827, -2.87093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Tree House is a house built around 1765, constructed of brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and a hipped slate roof. It has three storeys above a cellar and features five bays, with a slightly projecting central bay. The exterior includes chamfered quoins and a modillion cornice. The entrance, which is accessed by five steps, has a fanlight beneath a moulded semi-circular architrave supported by Tuscan pilasters and topped with a pediment that has consoles above shouldered pilasters.
The first and second floor windows have moulded architraves with shoulders and ears; the first floor window features a simple cornice, while the second-floor window has a scrolled top. The remaining windows have plain reveals, gauged brick lintels, and stone sills that form a sill band on the ground floor. Only the second floor windows, which have six panes, include glazing bars. Notably, the right-hand ground floor window has been converted into a door. There are two chimney stacks located behind the ridge.
Inside, the hall features fluted Tuscan pilasters that support a beam carrying the median wall. The open string staircase is adorned with plain brackets and three fluted balusters per tread, supporting a ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail.
The house was built by Thomas Langton, a local flax merchant and the son of the founder of the Kirkham Linen Mill.
Local climate
Ash Tree House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction 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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