27, Winckley Square is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
27, Winckley Square
- WRENN ID
- twisted-brass-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 27, Winckley Square, PR1 3JJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 537 290
- Coordinates
- 53.75612, -2.70275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 27 Winckley Square is a large town house that was formerly part of a school and is now used as offices. It dates from around 1830 and has been altered since its original construction. The building is made of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It has a double-depth, double-fronted plan and stands three storeys high over a basement, featuring four bays.
The exterior includes an ashlar plinth, a sill-band at the first floor, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. The doorway in the third bay is notable for its large doorcase, which is flanked by engaged Ionic columns and features a plain frieze and a moulded cornice with a blocking course. The inner surround is hollow-moulded and there is a modern fixed glazed door with a rectangular overlight that includes glazing bars and margin panes.
The windows on the ground and first floors are 12-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows were unglazed at the time of the survey. There is one cellar opening to the left. The interior has not been inspected but is believed to have been remodelled.
Local climate
27, Winckley Square 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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