Waterworks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Waterworks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-hinge-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Waterworks Cottage, Belmont Road, Bromley Cross, North Turton, BL7 9QP
- OS grid reference
- SD 691 144
- Coordinates
- 53.62558, -2.46795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterworks Cottage is a house dated 1824, as indicated in the gable. It is constructed from large ashlar blocks and features a slate roof with a central chimney. The building has a roughly T-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay, two-storey range with a gable facing the road, a single-bay, two-storey wing to the right, and a short single-storey wing to the left.
Designed in the Tudor style, the cottage includes a gabled porch in the right re-entrant, which has a Tudor-arched doorway at the front, complete with a hoodmould, and a tall Tudor-arched window on the right side. Most of the windows are mullioned, featuring two Tudor-arched lights with hollow spandrels, chamfered surrounds, and hoodmoulds. There is one window on each floor in the front gable wall, one at the left end, one at the right end, and additional windows in the side wall to the rear. The front gable also displays a relief plaque depicting a seated female figure pouring water into a vessel held by a child, with the inscription: BOLTON WATERWORKS/ESTABLISHED AD1824. The house overlooks a reservoir.
Local climate
Waterworks Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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.
- 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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