Warehouse Occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.

Warehouse Occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants

WRENN ID
brooding-ashlar-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Burnley
Constituency
Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Warehouse
Address
Warehouse Occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants, Blackburn Street
OS grid reference
SD 837 327
Coordinates
53.79093, -2.2474
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a small cotton spinning mill, now used as a scrap metal warehouse, likely built around 1833 for John Hargreaves. It has been altered over time and is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a slate roof. The warehouse has a rectangular plan and is located on the east bank of the River Calder.

The structure has three storeys above a semi-basement, featuring a window arrangement of 1:4. On the left side, there are four loading doors with 20th-century surrounds. To the right, there are tiered doorways leading to the basement and the raised ground floor, both with plain surrounds and an intermediate lintel that has a chamfered soffit. The basement and ground floor each have three windows, while the upper floors have four windows each, although the topmost windows are now boarded. All windows have plain sills and heads, and there are two tie-plates visible.

Attached to the west gable wall, which overlooks the river, is a small two-storey gabled engine house supported by iron columns. The east gable wall features stone slates from the gable end of a former row of weavers' cottages known as Club Houses, with four windows on the top floor and one in the gable above. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Warehouse Occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants 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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