21, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Shop, dwelling.

21, Church Street

WRENN ID
vast-truss-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1972
Type
Shop, dwelling
OS grid reference
SD 413 082
Coordinates
53.56785, -2.88675
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 21 Church Street is a small shop with a dwelling above, rebuilt in the 19th century but incorporating a re-set datestone from 1695. The exterior features white-painted roughcast on brick and a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with a courtyard entry on the left side. It stands three low storeys tall with two levels of windows. The left lower level has one window, while the right has two; the ground floor features a 20th-century shop front. On the first floor, there are three windows with quoined surrounds, including one on the left with altered glazing and two with four-pane sashes. The second floor has a tilting casement window on the left and one four-pane sash window on the right.

Local climate

21, Church Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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