Rockwood is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Villa, school.
Rockwood
- WRENN ID
- twisted-dormer-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa, school
- Address
- Rockwood, 159, Todmorden Road, BB11 3PU
- OS grid reference
- SD 847 314
- Coordinates
- 53.7792, -2.23349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockwood is a villa, now functioning as a school, built around 1830 to 1848. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and has a slate roof. The building features a double-depth, double-fronted plan with two storeys and a symmetrical arrangement of windows, consisting of two windows on the outer bays and one in the center, which slightly projects forward. The façade is adorned with rusticated corner pilasters, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice with a blocking course.
The central entrance includes a round-headed doorway with a keystone, a panelled door, and a fanlight, all sheltered by a Corinthian portico that has a balustraded parapet. Above the entrance, there is a 2-light French window supported by a cornice on consoles. The outer bays feature large 4-pane sashed windows with raised sills and plain reveals. The gables are coped, and there are gable chimneys. At the rear, the building has 12-pane sashed windows and a round-headed stair-window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rockwood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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