Avenham Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Town house.
Avenham Terrace
- WRENN ID
- veiled-attic-alder
- 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
- Avenham Terrace, 1, Frenchwood Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 542 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75437, -2.69496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avenham Terrace is a town house built in the 1850s, with some alterations. It features red brick in Flemish bond, sandstone dressings, and a concrete-tile roof. The building has a double-depth plan on a corner site, with a long back extension. It stands two storeys over a cellar, with an ashlar plinth, a first-floor sill-band, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice that wraps around the building.
The façade facing Frenchwood Street has one bay, with the doorway located to the right. This entrance is accessed by three steps and features a doorcase with engaged Ionic columns, an entablature, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with a hollow-moulded surround and an altered door. There is one window on each floor, both with altered glazing, raised sills, and a wedge lintel at the ground floor. The hipped roof currently lacks chimneys.
The left return wall has two bays with similar window arrangements and continues to the rear, where there is a lower back extension with two windows at ground level and three above. The rear and interior were not inspected. This building is part of an early Victorian extension that harmonizes with a previously complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in the street.
Local climate
Avenham Terrace 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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