Moor Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1990. House, office. 1 related planning application.

Moor Park House

WRENN ID
unlit-doorway-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1990
Type
House, office
Address
Moor Park House, 1, Moor Park Avenue, PR1 6AS
OS grid reference
SD 536 307
Coordinates
53.77133, -2.70509
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moor Park House is a detached house, dating from around 1830, that has been altered and is now used as offices. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof. It follows a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a rear service wing. The main house is two storeys high and has cellars beneath, with a symmetrical three-bay facade, the central bay projecting slightly. Features include a stone plinth, a sill band on the first floor, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice with a blocking course. The main entrance is up three steps and features a porch with Ionic columns and pilasters, an entablature with a cornice and blocking course, and a panelled door with stained glass panels and overlight. The windows are tall, four-pane sashes with raised sills and wedge lintels. Chimneys are located on the side walls. The left return wall has four-pane sashes on both floors, along with a 20th-century addition towards the rear. The right-hand return wall features one tall sash window at ground floor level and a single, narrow sash window on each upper floor towards the rear. Inside, the front room on the right has a moulded plaster cornice and a wide, elliptical-arched alcove.

Local climate

Moor Park House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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