Former Christ Church School is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. School. 1 related planning application.
Former Christ Church School
- WRENN ID
- stranded-sandstone-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Christ Church School, Rough Lee Road, BB5 2LU
- OS grid reference
- SD 763 279
- Coordinates
- 53.7475, -2.36029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century former school, built alongside Christ Church in 1837. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof and stone gable copings, laid out in a T-shaped plan. It is a single-story structure. The front facade, which faces Christ Church, is symmetrical and six bays wide, with buttresses. A central, buttressed and gabled double porch features two arched doorways supported by shafts. Tall, paired lancet windows are located in the two bays on either side of the porch; these are now blocked. The east gable wall contains two similar blocked windows, between which is a tall lancet recess containing two shafted niches with open traceried heads. Above the openings is a straight hollow-moulded dripcourse containing ball flower ornament. The apex of the gable has a trefoil with a hoodmould. A lower, single-story wing at the rear has been altered. The windows throughout the building are lancet style, with hoodmoulds featuring figured stops.
Local climate
Former Christ Church School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 6 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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