Former Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Town hall, customs house. 2 related planning applications.
Former Customs House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corridor-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood MP: Lorraine Beavers (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Town hall, customs house
- Address
- Former Customs House, 7, Queen’S Terrace, Fleetwood, FY7 6BT
- OS grid reference
- SD 340 480
- Coordinates
- 53.92472, -3.00578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Customs House, built in 1836 by architect Decimus Burton, is a significant two-storey building located at No 7 Queen's Terrace. Originally constructed as the Customs House, it was the first building in the town and later served as the Town Hall. The exterior features roughcast walls, a moulded eaves cornice, and a blocking course. An elaborate ornamental iron cresting with finials adorns the southern part of the building. There are eight ranges of sash windows, with the three northern windows projecting forward. The five southern windows have moulded surrounds, and those on the ground floor include moulded cornices.
The building has two Tuscan porches with full entablatures; the northern porch has square columns and closed sides, while the southern porch features round columns and open sides with cast iron railings. The southern porch also has the same cast iron cresting as the cornice. Steps lead up to the porches, which are flanked by cast iron railings with spear finials that extend across the front of the building.
Local climate
Former Customs House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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