The Old Dog Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Dog Inn

WRENN ID
blind-bastion-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Dog Inn, 133, Church Street, PR1 3BT
OS grid reference
SD 542 294
Coordinates
53.75897, -2.69528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Dog Inn is a public house, likely built in the early 19th century and altered in 1898. It is constructed of brick, with the front featuring rusticated ashlar at the ground floor and stucco above, all painted. The building has a double-depth plan and includes a through wagon entry at the left end. It stands three storeys high, probably over cellars, and has four bays. The ground floor is designed in a rustic style, while the upper floors, except for the first bay, present a symmetrical three-bay classical composition with giant pilasters, a moulded cornice, and a central pediment that contains a medallion.

On the ground floor, there is a round-headed doorway in the third bay, which is topped by an elaborate segmental-pedimented canopy. This pediment features monogrammed lettering that reads "18 MB & Co Ltd 98," likely referring to the Massey Burnley brewery. To the right of the doorway are two sashed windows, and to the left is a wide elliptical-arched window with a keyed moulded architrave. The left end has an elliptical-arched wagon entry with a similar keyed moulded head and imposts, with the right impost extending as a cornice over a doorway at the canted corner of the entry, which is adorned with decorated wrought-iron gates.

The upper floors have sashed windows with moulded architraves. The windows in the third bay are coupled and feature a frieze above the first floor that is lettered "THE OLD DOG INN." The windows in the flanking bays on the first floor have cornices. At the rear, the building has scored render, narrow sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, and a sashed stair-window with margin panes. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

The Old Dog Inn 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • 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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