30,31, St Ignatius Square is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Town houses. 2 related planning applications.

30,31, St Ignatius Square

WRENN ID
watchful-keystone-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1991
Type
Town houses
Address
30,31, St Ignatius Square, PR1 1TT
OS grid reference
SD 542 299
Coordinates
53.76404, -2.69617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pair of small town houses located in Preston, dating from the mid-19th century. The facades have been rebuilt using modern brick, but retain sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The houses follow a double-depth plan, with each having a single room at the front and coupled extensions at the rear. Each house has cellars and two storeys. They each feature one window at the first floor level.

The design includes a stone plinth, a first-floor sill band, a plain frieze, and a moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, arranged as a group of three with a through-lobby doorway between the houses, have moulded architraves and cornices supported by consoles with guttae. Each house has a single window on each floor, all of which have been altered. Chimneys are located on the roof ridge. The interior and rear of the houses have not been inspected.

The buildings are included on the heritage list for their group value, as part of a row comprising the church of St Ignatius and other similar houses around the square.

Local climate

30,31, St Ignatius Square 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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