Craft Museum Approximately 40 Metres West of Towneley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. A C18 Museum.
Craft Museum Approximately 40 Metres West of Towneley Hall
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chalk-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Museum
- OS grid reference
- SD 853 308
- Coordinates
- 53.77412, -2.22311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Craft Museum, located approximately 40 meters west of Towneley Hall, is a former brew house dating from around 1790, which has been altered over time. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, stands two stories tall, and has three irregularly spaced windows. The left end of the building has a wide elliptical-arched doorway, while the center features a depressed-arched doorway. Large flat-faced flush mullion windows, consisting of four lights on the first floor, four lights on the second floor, and three lights on the upper floor, are present on both levels. Inside, the museum showcases pegged king-post roof trusses with fishbone struts.
Local climate
Craft Museum Approximately 40 Metres West of Towneley Hall 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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