Close Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Close Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-doorway-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Close Farmhouse, Billinge End Road, Pleasington, BB2 6RA
- OS grid reference
- SD 636 278
- Coordinates
- 53.74615, -2.55275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1782, built from coursed sandstone with a stone slate roof featuring stone gutter brackets and gable chimneys made of brick. The building has kneelers at the rear topped with ball finials. It has a two-bay double-pile plan and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical design. The exterior includes rusticated quoins and bands at three levels: at the heads of the ground floor windows, at the sills, and at the heads of the first floor windows. The doorway has a plain surround and a damaged glasshouse porch, while there are two sash windows on each floor, each with glazing bars and three panes in each leaf. Attached to the left side is a single-storey lean-to made of random rubble, which has been mostly altered but still shows remains of flush-mullioned windows, possibly from a loomshop.
Local climate
Close Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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