Walker Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Residential. 8 related planning applications.
Walker Fold
- WRENN ID
- worn-crypt-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West MP: Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Walker Fold, 7 and 8, Walker Fold Road, Horwich, BL1 7PT
- OS grid reference
- SD 676 122
- Coordinates
- 53.60584, -2.48978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walker Fold consists of two houses built in the 17th century and later. They are constructed from dressed stone with quoins and feature a slate roof. The buildings are two storeys high and have five bays, with the end bay being a later addition.
On the ground floor, there are windows with label moulds, and the first and fourth bays have double-chamfered mullioned windows with four lights. The second bay has a similar window but lacks a mullion, while the fifth bay contains a casement window.
The first floor features casement windows, with those in the first and third bays set in chamfered reveals. The second bay previously had a two-light window, and the fourth bay had a three-light window, but both have since been altered. The fifth bay has a casement window and a blocked window.
Entrances are located in the first and fifth bays, and there is a window in the blocked former entrance of the third bay. There are stacks on the left gable end, a former stack on the right gable end, and another stack on the roof slope; the end bay has a stack at the rear.
Local climate
Walker Fold sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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