Sunnyhurst Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Sunnyhurst Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sunnyhurst Cottage, Sunnyhurst Wood
- OS grid reference
- SD 678 229
- Coordinates
- 53.70242, -2.48848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunnyhurst Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that now serves as a park office and museum. It is constructed from watershot coursed sandstone blocks and features a stone slate roof with a chimney on the left gable and another on the ridge near the right end. The building has a double pile, two-bay plan and stands two storeys tall with a cellar. The facade is symmetrical, featuring a central doorway with plain jambs and a lintel, flanked by two windows on each floor. All windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars, and they have plain sills and heads. The left side of the cottage has a door and two smaller windows on each floor, while the right side is partly covered by a lean-to garage that includes a cambered wooden lintel and a sunk doorway leading to the cellar.
Local climate
Sunnyhurst Cottage 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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