Conservatory at west end of park is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Conservatory.

Conservatory at west end of park

WRENN ID
strange-plaster-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1974
Type
Conservatory
Address
Conservatory at west end of park, Corporation Park
OS grid reference
SD 672 288
Coordinates
53.7553, -2.49815
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The conservatory at the west end of Corporation Park was built in 1902 by W Richardson and Co from Darlington. Its principal elevation faces southeast and features a central rectangular house with a gabled roof and a clock in the pediment. The structure has a regular-coursed stone plinth, while the rest is made of glass and iron, richly decorated with arches, pierced spandrels, and columns. At the top, there is a central tapering octagonal ventilator with an ogee dome and a flagpole, situated above an ogee-arcaded belfry. The conservatory is flanked by lower wings that have polygonal ends, iron cresting, and flying veranda roofs. This building is a notable example of the late-Victorian conservatory style.

Local climate

Conservatory at west end of park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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