17, Atherton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1991. House. 1 related planning application.
17, Atherton Street
- WRENN ID
- tattered-soffit-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Atherton Street, Prescot, L34 5QN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 467 928
- Coordinates
- 53.42988, -2.80337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Atherton Street is a house that is part of a terrace, built around 1790. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and has a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and features a regular two-window arrangement. It has a moulded eaves cornice and sash windows on the upper floors, all without horns, with the first-floor windows set under segmental arches. There is a late 19th-century style shop front with a doorway to the right and a ridge stack on the left side.
A notable feature of this building is the well-preserved second-floor watchmaker's workshop, which can be seen from the rear. This workshop includes a 30-pane window with a lintel at eaves level and four principal mullions, one of which has a shaped eaves bracket. The first-floor sash windows are also set under segmental heads. This building is significant as it represents an early phase in the history of watchmaking in Prescot, a town that played a nationally important role in this industry.
Local climate
17, Atherton Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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