Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scarred-rotunda-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse, Whittlestone Road, North Turton, BB3 3RS
OS grid reference
SD 719 195
Coordinates
53.67145, -2.42561
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse, likely built in the late 17th century, which has been converted into a house. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a slate roof with a chimney stack positioned near the left gable. The building has a two-bay baffle-entry plan and stands two low storeys tall.

At the left end of the front, there is a large single-storey gabled porch that has a moulded segmental-headed doorway, which is offset to the left. Above this doorway, there is a small round-headed opening in the gable. To the right of the porch, there are two windows on each floor, all of which have lost their original mullions. The ground floor windows consist of three and two lights, featuring chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds, but are now fitted with casements that include glazing bars. The upper floor windows have two lights each and have been lengthened downwards.

Additionally, there is a small round-headed window on the first floor of the left return wall, and a hoodmould above an altered ground floor window located at the rear of the first bay. A flat-roofed modern porch has been added to the rear, along with two altered windows above. The interior of the farmhouse has not been inspected.

Local climate

Lower Whittlestone Head 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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