Stockbridge House is a Grade II* listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1953. A C17 House.
Stockbridge House
- WRENN ID
- secret-iron-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stockbridge House, Victoria Road, Padiham
- OS grid reference
- SD 798 335
- Coordinates
- 53.79809, -2.30746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-17th century house, altered in the early 19th century, and now used as a home for the elderly. It is constructed of sandstone, with random rubble in the hall and coursed stone in the cross-wing, featuring copings on the kneelers. The roof is covered in concrete tiles. The building has an L-shaped layout, comprising a main hall and a cross-wing, with a central axial chimney stack and a smaller, likely 19th-century, stack above the hall gable.
The original front of the house, now facing the garden, was remodeled in the early 19th century. It now has a roughly central doorway with chamfered jambs and a Tudor-arched lintel, protected by a hoodmould. To the left of the doorway, on both floors, are three-light mullioned windows, with a similar window on the first floor to the right. Below this, on the ground floor, is the original eight-light hall window, which is double-chamfered, transomed, and features a king-mullion and ovolo inner chamfers, also protected by a hoodmould. The cross-wing to the right has a six-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor (lighting a parlour), a five-light mullioned window on the first floor, and three stepped windows within the gable, all double-chamfered and under hoodmoulds.
The original rear of the building is now the entrance front and was remodeled in the early 19th century with a central doorway, a panelled and glazed door, a three-light window on each floor to the right, and a similar window on the first floor to the left (the ground floor window is now obscured by a 20th-century outshut). The cross-wing projects to the left, featuring a three-light stepped window in the gable, a five-light mullioned window on the first floor (both double-chamfered under hoodmoulds), an early 19th-century four-light window on the ground floor to the left, and three original windows related to the staircase on the right.
Inside, the hall has a fireplace with a four-centred moulded arch 2.5 meters wide. The parlour has a simple cornice and two panels of elaborate plasterwork depicting vine trails between ceiling beams, which have simple stops. A dog-leg staircase is situated at the rear of the cross-wing, constructed of stone. The property formerly belonged to the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall.
Local climate
Stockbridge House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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