20,22, Lancaster Road is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
20,22, Lancaster Road
- WRENN ID
- woven-stair-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 20,22, Lancaster Road, PR1 1DA
- OS grid reference
- SD 541 294
- Coordinates
- 53.75912, -2.69752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 20 and 22 Lancaster Road is a commercial building, likely originally designed as shops with living spaces above, dating from around the mid-1850s and has been altered over time. The structure is built of painted brick with stucco decoration and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan that includes a carriage entry on the left side.
The building is designed in a classical style and stands three storeys tall with an attic, comprising three bays. The first bay is narrower due to the carriage entry, while the central bay projects slightly forward and is adorned with giant coupled pilasters and pilaster fillets on the outer bays. It has a moulded frieze and a prominent cornice with modillions and a blocking course.
The ground floor features 20th-century shop fronts, while the upper floors have windows with moulded architraves. The central window on the first floor has a pediment supported by consoles, although its glazing has been altered. To the left, there is a four-pane sash window with a plain cornice, while the right window has been altered. The second floor windows have shouldered architraves, with the central and left windows being four-pane sashes, and the right window altered. The roof includes two glazed dormer windows and has corniced chimneys.
The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a block that includes Nos. 10, 12, and 14 on one side and Nos. 16 and 18 on the other, with No. 24, known as The Stanley Arms, located to the left.
Local climate
20,22, Lancaster Road 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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