96, Fishergate is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. A C19 Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.

96, Fishergate

WRENN ID
turning-brick-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Commercial building
Address
96, Fishergate, PR1 2NJ
OS grid reference
SD 537 292
Coordinates
53.75794, -2.70303
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 96 Fishergate is a commercial building, likely originally a bank, now serving as a building society office. It probably dates from the mid to late 19th century and has been altered over time. The structure is built of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. It has a narrow rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street and is designed in a classical style.

The building has three diminishing storeys and four bays, with a plinth and cornices on all floors, the top cornice adorned with pairs of small acroteria. The ground floor features a tall four-bay arcade supported by coupled pilasters that have palmette capitals. The frieze and cornice are stepped around the openings, which include a doorway to the left and three altered windows. The first floor has sash windows without glazing bars, set in shouldered architraves topped with shallow dentilled pediments. The second floor features round-headed windows situated between coupled pilasters with stiff-leaf capitals. The rear and interior of the building were not inspected.

Local climate

96, Fishergate 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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