131a, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Warehouse, shop.
131a, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-bastion-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse, shop
- OS grid reference
- SD 542 294
- Coordinates
- 53.75905, -2.69505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
131A Church Street is a warehouse that has been converted into a shop. It likely dates from the early 19th century and has undergone alterations. The building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, and the front is painted white. It features a rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street, with a basement and four storeys.
The facade is gabled and symmetrical, with three windows. There is a central loading slot that has three stages above the ground floor. The first two stages have fixed windows, while the top stage includes a loading door with a small hoist above it. At ground level, there is a doorway with glazed double doors. The ground floor showcases 19th-century shop windows that are framed by pilaster architraves and large foliated consoles at the ends of the fascia boards. The upper floors have square windows flanking the loading slot, featuring raised sills, rectangular lintels, and altered glazing.
On the west side wall, there are four 4-pane windows on each floor, which have raised sills and wedge lintels, although all are blocked internally. Inside, each floor, including the cellar, contains a series of eight large beams spaced approximately two metres apart. Most of these beams are chamfered, while some are boxed or have been replaced. The top floor features three kingpost roof trusses with fishbone struts and two pairs of purlins.
Local climate
131a, Church 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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