Dunscar House is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1976. House.
Dunscar House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-buttress-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dunscar House, Darwen Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 713 138
- Coordinates
- 53.62044, -2.43398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunscar House is a house built around 1830, constructed of stone and featuring hipped slate roofs. The building is two storeys high and has five bays, with the last two bays recessed under a separate roof and an extruded corner. The first three bays include a first-floor sill band and a top cornice. The windows are sashed and have glazing bars. The entrance, located in the second bay, is elliptical-headed and features an Ionic doorcase and porch. The end bay has a loggia that is recessed behind two round arches. The extruded corner includes a round-headed window on the return and a small casement on the front. There are two central stacks on the roof.
Local climate
Dunscar House 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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