The Elms, with Associated Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. House, surgery.
The Elms, with Associated Front Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- last-brass-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- House, surgery
- Address
- The Elms, with Associated Front Garden Wall, 5, Derby Street, L39 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 415 083
- Coordinates
- 53.56883, -2.88393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a house that has been converted into a surgery. It was built in the mid-19th century and was undergoing alterations and renovation at the time of the survey. The building is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with some sandstone dressings, and features a hipped roof. It has an L-shaped plan with a short projecting wing on the left side.
The house is two storeys tall and has a window arrangement of 1:2. The main part of the building includes a round-headed doorway located at the angle, with the left side of the arch integrated into the side of the wing. This doorway has a gauged brick head and keystone, and it is framed by a recessed porch with a moulded wooden doorcase. Above the doorway is a small round-headed window, and to the right is a large tripartite window, which previously had an iron verandah that is now missing. At the time of the survey, a flat-arched brick head was under construction for this window. Above it, there is a top-hung casement that mimics a four-pane sash, featuring a flat-arched head and keystone.
The gable of the wing has a similar window on the first floor, a canted bay window on the ground floor, and a pedimented gable. The associated front garden wall is made of coursed squared sandstone with rounded coping, standing approximately one-and-a-half metres high, and features a concave curve at the gate piers on the right-hand end. The Elms forms a group with the adjacent property, No.5A, to the right.
Local climate
The Elms, with Associated Front Garden Wall 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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