Isherwood Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Isherwood Fold
- WRENN ID
- eastward-latch-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Isherwood Fold, 6 and 7, Blackburn Road, North Turton, BL7 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 736 172
- Coordinates
- 53.65126, -2.39973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Isherwood Fold consists of a pair of cottages dated 1718, with a later addition on the right end. The cottages are built from coursed sandstone rubble and feature quoins, topped with a slate roof that has chimneys at both original gables, while the roof of the addition extends beyond the right gable. The cottages have a single pile plan, each comprising 2 bays, creating a long range of 4 bays with an additional 5th bay from the later addition. They are 2 storeys high, with a broad single storey extension at the rear of each.
The doorway for the baffle entry is located at the left end and has a lintel with a moulded square panel that contains incised lettering "C I" and a pattern of 1718 represented by three groups of five dots. Originally, there were four 4-light windows on each floor, featuring slightly recessed chamfered mullions and simple hoodmoulds over the ground floor windows. However, only the third ground floor window remains intact; the first and second lack some mullions, with the first having an added light to the left, and the fourth has been altered into a door with a large window inserted to the right. On the rear wall, there is a 6-light window with a hoodmould at ground floor level between the extensions, although the fourth light is blocked. The extensions have mostly altered windows, but some mullions are still present.
Local climate
Isherwood Fold 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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