Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Town hall. 3 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- solitary-mortar-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Town Hall Square, BB6 7DD
- OS grid reference
- SD 732 322
- Coordinates
- 53.78566, -2.4077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1900 by Briggs and Wolstenholme, is a Grade II listed building located in Town Fall Square, Great Harwood. It is constructed of ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with two ridge chimneys and two additional chimneys at the rear. The building has a rectangular plan with five by four bays and stands two and a half storeys tall in a free Baroque style.
The design is symmetrical, with slightly projecting gabled wings and a three-bay centre. It includes a plinth, a string course, a first-floor sill band, and a moulded cornice that extends across the face of the gables. The central doorway is framed by a Gibbs surround and a segmental pediment that rises from the string course. On either side of the door are pairs of sashed windows with coupled Gibbs surrounds, while the wings feature stilted lunettes with tripartite sashed windows.
On the first floor, there are coupled windows in the centre and triple windows in the wings, all adorned with Gibbs surrounds and cornices. Each wing has corbelled polygonal corners at the first floor, which continue above the cornice as turrets topped with ball finials, flanking a finialled gable that contains a bullseye with an archivolt. The right return wall is styled similarly, and the left end connects at the first floor to an adjoining bank through a matching arch with a finial.
Local climate
Town Hall 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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