Nabbs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Nabbs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-tracery-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nabbs Cottage, Greens Arms Road, North Turton, BL7 0NF
- OS grid reference
- SD 725 167
- Coordinates
- 53.64696, -2.4166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nabbs Cottage is a farmhouse with an attached barn, dating from 1748. It is now used as a house. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, and has a slate roof with a chimney on the ridge. Originally, there was a right gable chimney. The design is based on a two-bay plan; a third bay was added to the right end and is not included in the listing.
The two-storey front has a single-storey, lean-to porch on the right end, with a rectangular lintel above the door and a slit peephole in the front wall. To the left of the porch are two four-light windows with chamfered mullions and plain hoodmolds. Above, on the first floor, are three windows with similar mullions, of three, two, and three lights respectively.
The attached barn, extending to the left, has an outshut to the first bay, with a doorway at the left end bearing the initials "JL". Modern garage doorways are visible in the second bay. The left gable wall contains an owl hole with a perching stone, dated 1748. The rear of the building has been largely altered and now features recent additions made of compatible materials and in a matching style. Inside the house, the interior has timber-framed partitions.
Local climate
Nabbs Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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