1, Marsh House Close is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
1, Marsh House Close
- WRENN ID
- fossil-foundation-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Marsh House Close, Longton, Preston, PR4 5DJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 471 258
- Coordinates
- 53.72602, -2.80205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, likely built in the later 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the late 19th or early 20th century. The exterior is rendered brick, whitened, with a slate roof. There are chimney stacks at the house’s junction and both gables, with the right-hand gable stack corbelled. Originally built with a baffle-entry plan to two bays, it has a later addition on the left side. The front of the house has been heavily altered in the late 19th or early 20th century, including a two-storey gabled porch in the centre. The original entrance, previously located at the right-hand end, has been blocked and concealed. The rear wall features a small firewindow with a short band above it, as well as several other windows, including two sliding sash windows.
Inside, the section of the house in the third bay contains an inglenook with a heck, a chamfered bressummer, a two-light mullioned fire-window (with one light blocked), and a salt cupboard bearing the inscription "P; W : I". There are also two ovolo-moulded and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The second bay has a timber-framed partition and a chamfered beam, and blocked mullion windows are visible on the first floor.
Local climate
1, Marsh House Close sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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