The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- sombre-flue-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, 4 and 6, Cobb's Brow Lane, Newburgh, WN8 7ND
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 101
- Coordinates
- 53.58561, -2.78228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a small house and attached cottage, now functioning as a single dwelling. It dates from the early 18th century, with a date of 1719 noted inside. The building is constructed of handmade red brick in Flemish bond, featuring a sandstone rubble plinth and a stone slate roof. It has a double-depth plan with small extensions at the back.
The structure is two storeys high and has a total of three windows on the upper floor and one window on the lower floor, making the house double-fronted. The right side, No.4, has a doorway that is offset to the left, featuring a wooden frame, a board door, and a one-course flat-arched head. It also has two 3-light small-paned casement windows on each floor, all with flat-arched heads; the ground floor windows are made of gauged brick. The left side, No.6, has a similar doorway and one similar window on each floor to the left. There is a ridge chimney at the junction of the two sections and a gable chimney to the right.
Inside, the building features stone-framed fireplaces, and one doorcase on the ground floor is inscribed with the date 1719.
Local climate
The Retreat sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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