Woodlands is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
Woodlands
- WRENN ID
- hidden-pier-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Woodlands, Park Road, BB3 2NG
- OS grid reference
- SD 693 204
- Coordinates
- 53.67972, -2.46484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands is a manufacturer’s mansion dating from the 1860s. The building is constructed of red and blue brick with stone dressings, featuring steeply-pitched slate roofs with shaped gables and various chimneys topped with weathered caps. It comprises two linked, but unequal ranges, presenting a four-bay south front, a two-bay east end, and a shorter four-bay entrance front facing the carriage drive.
The building has a basement and two and a half storeys, designed in a Jacobean style with diaper patterning, highlighted by two horizontal bands between the floors. A prominent moulded cornice supports a balustrade with urn finials connecting the gables. The second bay of the entrance front is a two-and-a-half-storey gabled bay. This bay includes a raised front door, sheltered by a large, single-storey, round-arched stone porch in a Renaissance style, with steps leading up to the front and a balustrade in the side arch. Above the door is a large carved stone shield within a panelled surround. Most ground-floor and first-floor windows are four and three-light designs with moulded wooden frames and high transoms. Attic windows are of two lights, set within the gables. The left return wall incorporates two gables, along with a large rectangular bay window on the ground floor, accessed by balustraded steps. The south (garden) side of the house has three gables, with the second bay set back and featuring a semi-circular bay window and a stone parapet at ground floor level.
Inside, the decoration and fittings are extravagant, displaying a Renaissance and Jacobean style. Key features include a panelled entrance hall, a Jacobean-style staircase, a moulded plaster frieze, cornices, and ceiling in the drawing room and dining room, and matching chimney pieces. The drawing room fireplace is classical, with superimposed orders enclosing a picture within a moulded surround. The dining room chimney is constructed of Jacobean-style wooden panelling with a heavy entablature. Radiator cabinets have been designed to match the overall style.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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