Textile Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Textile Museum
- WRENN ID
- scattered-mortar-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1974
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Textile Museum, Exchange Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 681 283
- Coordinates
- 53.75015, -2.48423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Textile Museum is a Grade II listed building located on Exchange Street. It is a Victorian structure designed in a palazzo style and consists of three storeys. The ground floor features a Regency style with a doorway and flanking lights set in a wide segmental arch that includes a fanlight, along with a large bow window. The first floor is adorned with three round-arched sash windows that have radiating glazing bars, brick arches, and stone imposts with dentils. Above the first floor, there is a cornice with dentils. The top floor contains three smaller round-arched sash windows, and the top cornice projects deeply on paired brackets. Additionally, there are small iron balconies attached to the first-floor windows.
Local climate
Textile Museum 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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