Woodlands is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 6 related planning applications.
Woodlands
- WRENN ID
- north-balcony-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodlands, Preston Old Road, Livesey, BB2 5NL
- OS grid reference
- SD 652 260
- Coordinates
- 53.72982, -2.52754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century house, now used as offices. It is constructed of stuccoed walls with sandstone dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof with a modillioned eaves cornice and various chimneys. The house has a square plan of three bays by three bays, arranged over two storeys, with a lower service wing attached to the right side and at the rear. The front and left return walls are symmetrical, with the exception of the first-floor windows on the front.
The front of the house features four giant Tuscan pilasters, a first-floor sill band, and a central doorcase with Tuscan pilaster jambs and a fluted round arch, topped with a console keystone and cornice. The windows are sash windows. The ground floor has two tall windows with shouldered architraves and aprons, and a similar window above the door. The first floor has two windows in the first bay and one in the third bay, all with plain surrounds. The left return wall also has a first-floor sill band, a central doorway, and a first-floor window with a shouldered architrave, flanked at ground floor by canted bays with cornices and low pediments, and at first floor by windows with plain surrounds.
The recessed service wing to the right has rusticated quoins, a single window on each floor facing the front, matching the other front windows, and a central door with a segmental-headed architrave on the side, along with two windows on each floor. The rear wall includes, among other features, a coupled window on the ground floor and two windows above. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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