6 and 8, Queens Square is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
6 and 8, Queens Square
- WRENN ID
- other-cloister-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6 and 8, Queens Square, Hoddlesden, BB3 3NQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 715 222
- Coordinates
- 53.69616, -2.43167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 6 and 8 in Queen's Square are 17th-century houses that were likely altered in the late 18th century and are now two cottages. They are built of coursed thin sandstone rubble on a low plinth, with quoins. The roof of No. 6 is tiled, while No. 8 has stone slates. Both houses feature chimneys located at the front of the ridge, one at the left end and one in the center.
The buildings have two bays and are two storeys high, with the wall raised above the first floor. Each cottage has an inserted doorway on the right side that breaks the plinth. The ground floor of No. 6 has a four-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould, although it is missing the center mullion. No. 8 has a large inserted window. On the first floor, each cottage has one square double-chamfered window, and the rear wall contains two similar windows.
Inside, some alterations were in progress at the time of the survey in 1984, but No. 6 featured an inglenook fireplace with a bressummer. The buildings are listed for their group value only.
Local climate
6 and 8, Queens Square 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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