Bank House, Fountain and Statues of Orpheus and Eurydice in Front Garden of Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. A C17 House, fountain, statues. 4 related planning applications.
Bank House, Fountain and Statues of Orpheus and Eurydice in Front Garden of Bank House
- WRENN ID
- deep-niche-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1951
- Type
- House, fountain, statues
- Address
- Bank House, Fountain and Statues of Orpheus and Eurydice in Front Garden of Bank House, Adelaide Terrace
- OS grid reference
- SD 673 285
- Coordinates
- 53.75219, -2.49614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House is a 17th-century building with later alterations, evidenced by a window pane dated 1744. The building is constructed of stone walls made of graded blocks, with a flagged roof and ball finials on the eaves. It is two storeys high and features a two-storey, gabled porch in the centre. This porch has a round-arched entrance with impost blocks, interior seating, and a panelled door. Above the entrance is a 12-paned sash window within a moulded stone frame featuring a dripstone. To the right of the porch is a five-light window on the ground floor with a stone label, and a blocked four-light window above. To the left of the porch are two windows on each floor; a larger four-light window and a modern two-light window on the ground floor, and two two-light windows above. All windows are fitted with stone mullions. The gable end to the right features two sash windows on each floor. A wing at the rear is constructed of old hand-made brick, with sash windows and a projecting brick chimney. In the small front garden, immediately in front of the house, stands an 18th-century fountain, known as the "Spewing Laddie." It is composed of a square stone column topped by a small, naked boy blowing a water jet upwards, a circular stone basin with urns, and two standing stone statues depicting Orpheus with a lyre and Eurydice in chains.
Local climate
Bank House, Fountain and Statues of Orpheus and Eurydice in Front Garden of Bank House 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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