11, Winckley Street is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Town house. 1 related planning application.
11, Winckley Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-window-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 11, Winckley Street, PR1 2AA
- OS grid reference
- SD 538 292
- Coordinates
- 53.7571, -2.70169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 11 Winckley Street is a large townhouse, built in 1799 or 1800, and now serving as part of a college annex (linked to No. 5 Winckley Square). It was the first house constructed on Winckley Square, commissioned for William Cross, who conceived the square's design. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It has a rectangular, double-depth, double-fronted plan positioned on a corner site, featuring a gable facing Winckley Square.
The house consists of two main floors and an attic, with a cellar below, and has five bays with a symmetrical arrangement, except for the service door. It has an ashlar plinth, a band at the first floor level, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. The central doorway is round-headed, enclosed by a substantial doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, a plain frieze, and a prominent cornice with mutules and a blocking course. The door itself is panelled and sits within a wooden surround, accompanied by narrow side lights, a rectangular overlight, and a fanlight with margin panes of engraved and coloured glass, featuring anthemions in the band around the fanlight. A smaller, service doorway, with a moulded architrave and rectangular overlight is located immediately to the left of the main entrance.
The windows are mainly 12-pane sashes, although the ground floor windows to the left have been altered. First-floor windows are unhorned and have raised sills and wedge lintels. There are two cellar openings on each side, protected by grills. A single ridge chimney stack is present.
The gabled facade facing Winckley Square showcases five bays, with the first floor's central three bays slightly raised, and the gable treated as a pediment. The ground floor features tall sashes without glazing bars, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes. Three attic windows are incorporated, with the central window round-headed and featuring V-shaped glazing bars in the head.
Inside, the staircase has ornamental cast-iron balusters, but the interior has otherwise been altered.
Local climate
11, Winckley Street 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 — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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