42, Great Avenham Street is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Town house. 1 related planning application.
42, Great Avenham Street
- WRENN ID
- narrow-sill-heron
- 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
- 42, Great Avenham Street, PR1 3TD
- OS grid reference
- SD 541 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75431, -2.69615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small town house dating from around 1830, located in Preston, and altered since its original construction. It’s built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. The house has a double-depth single-fronted plan, with an extension to the rear. It has two storeys over a cellar, and two bays across the front. A simple frieze and a moulded gutter cornice run along the top of the building.
The front doorway, which is to the left, is up three steps with nosings. It is round-headed, with brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, a four-panel door, and a semi-circular fanlight with altered glazing. There is one window at ground floor level and two windows above, all of which are unhorned sash windows without glazing bars. The raised sills are topped with wedge lintels. The cellar window is a casement with glazing bars, also with a wedge lintel and protected by a metal grating.
The rear of the building and the interior have not been inspected. The house was originally part of a group of late Georgian houses built for the lower-middle class, situated within Great Avenham Field, which was advertised for sale as building plots in 1825.
Local climate
42, Great Avenham 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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