Brookside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Brookside Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-column-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brookside Cottage, 782, Livesey Branch Road
OS grid reference
SD 649 253
Coordinates
53.72319, -2.53264
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brookside Cottage is an 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed from whitewashed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof with a chimney on the right gable and a stone cross on the left gable. The building has two bays and two storeys, with a single-storey outshut at the rear of the first bay.

The entrance is located to the right of centre and is covered by a gabled wooden canopy. There are two windows on each floor; the ground floor windows are horizontal rectangular casements, with the left window having a chamfered surround and another blocked window to the right. The upper floor windows are small and square. The right end of the front wall has a jagged tear, indicating a former continuation, and there is a blocked first-floor opening in the gable wall.

At the rear, the second bay has one horizontal rectangular window on each floor, with the upper one being smaller. The outshut features a door and a similar window, along with a brick chimney at the corner. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Brookside Cottage 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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