Darwen Jubilee Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1972. Observation tower. 2 related planning applications.
Darwen Jubilee Tower
- WRENN ID
- shifting-timber-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1972
- Type
- Observation tower
- Address
- Darwen Jubilee Tower, BB3 1JX
- OS grid reference
- SD 678 215
- Coordinates
- 53.68965, -2.48801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darwen Jubilee Tower is an observation tower built in 1897, designed in a late medieval style. The tower is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and stands 86 feet high with an octagonal shape. It features a spiral staircase leading to observation decks and is surrounded at the base by a buttressed open arcade that supports a low-level deck. Each arch at the base has a stone shield, with a band above and a ramped parapet leading to the deck. The tower includes a Tudor-arched doorway on the west side, lancet stairlights, a bracketed cornice, and an embattled parapet adorned with cross-shaped arrowslits at the corners. At the top, the tower is capped with a lantern featuring a domed cap and weathervane. This tower was constructed following a lengthy legal dispute that resulted in Darwen Moor becoming public property.
Local climate
Darwen Jubilee Tower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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