St Stephen's Old School in St Stephen's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. School. 1 related planning application.

St Stephen's Old School in St Stephen's Churchyard

WRENN ID
unlit-threshold-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1966
Type
School
Address
St Stephen's Old School in St Stephen's Churchyard, Chapels Lane, Tockholes, BB3 0LY
OS grid reference
SD 659 233
Coordinates
53.70589, -2.51665
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a school, dated 1834 as shown on a plaque next to the doorway. Constructed of sandstone random rubble with a slate roof, it is a simple rectangular, single-storey structure built against a slope. A plain doorway is offset to the left, and a two-light window with a hollow-chamfered mullion is located to its left. To the right of the doorway is an arched doorway raised above a stone pulpit on a pedestal, representing the sole opening in an otherwise long, blind wall. Above and to the right of the entrance is a square plaque inscribed with “St. Stephen’s School, Tockholes, was erected A.D. 1834, upon the Glebe Land by voluntary Subscription, aided with a Grant of £150 from the National Society, London Gilmour Robinson, In.”

Local climate

St Stephen's Old School in St Stephen's Churchyard 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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