Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery is a Grade I listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. A C19 Museum, art gallery, library. 11 related planning applications.
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- moated-tracery-saffron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Museum, art gallery, library
- Address
- Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Market Place, PR1 2PP
- OS grid reference
- SD 540 294
- Coordinates
- 53.75916, -2.6983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery is a museum, art gallery, and library built between 1882 and 1893 by James Hibbert of Preston. It features sculptures by E. Roscoe Mullins and decorative elements by Rowland Rhodes. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with the roof concealed by a parapet. It has a large rectangular plan that includes a podium at the front and is designed in a monumental Greek Revival style. The structure consists of three storeys above a basement, with the ground floor serving as a plinth and the upper floors designed as giant Orders. The interior has been slightly altered.
Local climate
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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