Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Town hall. 17 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- plain-loggia-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1974
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, King William Street, BB1 7DY
- OS grid reference
- SD 681 282
- Coordinates
- 53.74994, -2.4838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1852 by Patterson, is a large rectangular stone building that has been joined to a new annexe. The ground floor features rusticated stonework, while the first floor is adorned with a modillioned eaves cornice and round-arched Italianate windows. Above the attic storey, there is a pierced balustrade. The building has quoins and Corinthian columns on the first floor at the front. The end three bays project slightly and include balustraded balconies.
Local climate
Town Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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