6, East Cliff is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1974. Vicarage, hostel. 2 related planning applications.
6, East Cliff
- WRENN ID
- rooted-wattle-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1974
- Type
- Vicarage, hostel
- Address
- 6, East Cliff, PR1 3JE
- OS grid reference
- SD 536 287
- Coordinates
- 53.75344, -2.70441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 East Cliff is a vicarage, now used as a hostel, dated 1846 on the gable of the porch. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building has an irregular double-depth plan, featuring a projecting wing to the left. It is designed in a 17th-century vernacular style, characterized by mullioned windows and steeply pitched roofs. The structure has two storeys and an attic, raised over a basement, with a wide asymmetrical facade that includes four windows on the first floor.
The left wing has coupled unequal gables, with the smaller gable on the right belonging to an integral two-storey porch. This porch features a Tudor-arched doorway with a deep moulded surround and hoodmould, accessed by a flight of steps between gatepiers in the area wall. There is a small lancet window on the first floor and a shield in the gable inscribed "MDCCCLVI". To the left, the main portion of the wing has a four-light window at ground floor, a smaller three-light window on the first floor, and a lancet window in the attic. The gables are steeply pitched and coped, with an apex cross on the larger gable.
The main range includes a transomed three-stage six-light stair window near the center, a two-light window on each floor to the left, a large five-light window to the right, and a smaller four-light window above. There is a skylight in the roof and several tall triple-flue chimneys, including one at the angle and another at the right-hand gable. The rear and interior of the building have been altered.
Local climate
6, East Cliff 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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