1 and 2 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Town house.

1 and 2 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
stranded-railing-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1991
Type
Town house
Address
1 and 2 and Attached Railings, Ribblesdale Place
OS grid reference
SD 540 288
Coordinates
53.75422, -2.69902
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pair of town houses, now used as an office and a house, built around 1830 and altered since. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a graduated slate roof. The buildings have a double-depth plan and are two storeys high with basements and attics, featuring three bays on each side. The ashlar basement serves as a plinth, with a first-floor sill-band, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice.

No. 1 has its doorway on the left, accessed by two steps. The doorcase features engaged Tuscan columns, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, plain jambs with imposts, and a glazed and panelled door topped with an elliptical fanlight. To the left of this is a lobby doorway with a plain surround, a board door, and an overlight. No. 2 has a very wide elliptical-arched doorway on the right, accessed by three steps, with a gauged brick head and a tripartite doorcase that has shafted jambs and a moulded lintel. It includes a panelled door and narrow side windows, all beneath a fanlight with radiating leaded glazing. Each house has two 4-pane sash windows at the ground floor and three above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels. The basement areas are protected by cast-iron railings with curvilinear balusters, and No. 2 features a gate in the returned end that opens onto steps. The chimneys are located in front and behind the ridge at the junction and at the right-hand gable, with a small inserted dormer at No. 2.

At the rear, both houses are three storeys high with basements at ground level. No. 1 has a two-storey canted bay window and two inserted glazed doors at the basement level, with sash windows above. No. 2 has French windows at the basement level and altered windows at the first floor, which are now uPVC.

Inside, No. 2 features a cross-vaulted entrance hall, panelled architraves on the doors, fine plaster cornices in the drawing room and parlour, and built-in cupboards in the dining room with Gothick traceried doors. Both houses have full basement suites that have been modernised, but No. 1 retains a former kitchen with an iron cooking range and washing boiler, while No. 2 includes a dumb-waiter and a butler's pantry.

Local climate

1 and 2 and Attached Railings 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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