Numbers 4,6 and 8 and Attached Railings to 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 4,6 and 8 and Attached Railings to 4
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cobalt-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Numbers 4,6 and 8 and Attached Railings to 4, Avenham Lane, PR1 3SX
- OS grid reference
- SD 540 289
- Coordinates
- 53.75465, -2.69795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 4, 6, and 8 are a row of three town houses built around 1830, with some alterations. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Each house has a double-depth plan and is single-fronted, with Nos. 6 and 8 having adjoining halls and a rear wing. The houses are two storeys high with cellars and consist of two bays each. Number 4 has been altered with the addition of a wide two-storey canted bay. The doorway of No. 4 is located to the right, while Nos. 6 and 8 have coupled doorways. All doorways are round-headed, featuring gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, and large fanlights with elegant radiating tracery. The windows of Nos. 6 and 8 are sashed without glazing bars, with raised sills and wedge lintels, while the cellar windows have similar lintels. No. 4's large late 19th-century canted bay distinguishes it from the others. The buildings have a plain frieze and a moulded gutter cornice, with chimneys located on both sides of the ridge at the junctions of the properties. Number 4 has a cellar area protected by simple cast-iron bar railings with ornamental heads and urn finials on the corners of the doorways, along with an integral boot-scraper to the right of the door. The matching railings from No. 1 Bushell Place continue to the right. Number 6 has 20th-century replacement railings, while No. 8 has none. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Numbers 4,6 and 8 and Attached Railings to 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- 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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