48 and 50, St Helens Road is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
48 and 50, St Helens Road
- WRENN ID
- hidden-barrel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48 and 50, St Helens Road, Prescot, L34 6HS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 469 930
- Coordinates
- 53.43188, -2.8006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 48 and 50 on St Helens Road are a pair of houses that form part of a terrace, built in 1837 as indicated by the rainwater head. The buildings are finished in pebble-dash, likely over brick, with stone dressings and a felted slate roof. They are two storeys tall and consist of three bays, featuring a top cornice. The windows have wedge lintels and 20th-century casements. The entrances are flanked by lintels and include overlights and six-panel doors, with the lower panels flush; one entry has a plank door. There are four chimney stacks.
At the rear, there are two outriggers that were formerly used as watchmakers' galleries. The outrigger for No. 48 is intact and features ground floor segmental-headed windows, one of which has a horizontally sliding sash with glazing bars. There are three entrances at the rear. The first floor has long horizontally sliding sashes, with two windows of three lights and two of five lights, most of which have glazing bars. The interior includes a winding staircase, along with benches and cupboards on the first floor. No. 50 retains some of its original windows, but its interior has not been inspected. This pair of houses is a notable early example of watchmaker's galleries, and one of the few remaining.
Local climate
48 and 50, St Helens Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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