40, 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.
40, Great Avenham Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-loft-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1991
- Type
- Town house
- OS grid reference
- SD 541 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75435, -2.6962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Great Avenham Street is a small town house built around 1830, with some alterations. It features red brick in Flemish bond, sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. The house has a double-depth, single-fronted plan with back extensions and a through-lobby on the right side. It stands two storeys high over a cellar and has two bays, characterized by a plain frieze and a moulded gutter cornice.
The entrance is located to the right, accessed by two steps (now tiled), and features a round-headed architrave with a raised moulded rim and moulded imposts, along with a semi-circular fanlight that has original radiating metal tracery (the door itself has been altered). There is one window on the ground floor and two above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels (the glazing has been altered). The cellar window has a wedge lintel and is protected by grating. There are chimneys on both slopes at the left end. The rear and interior of the house have not been inspected. This property is part of a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in the street, which was laid out in Great Avenham Field and advertised for sale as building plots in 1825.
Local climate
40, 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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