Haworth Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Large house. 4 related planning applications.

Haworth Art Gallery

WRENN ID
wild-chimney-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hyndburn
Constituency
Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1984
Type
Large house
Address
Haworth Art Gallery, Manchester Road
OS grid reference
SD 767 271
Coordinates
53.74041, -2.3544
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Haworth Art Gallery is a large house, formerly known as Hollins Hill, built between 1908 and 1909 by architect W.H. Brierley for cotton manufacturer William Howarth. The building is constructed of snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with various tall chimneys. It has an E-shaped plan with five bays and a T-shaped service wing attached to the rear of the fifth bay. The structure is 2 and a half storeys tall and is designed in a neo-Jacobean style.

The facade includes four gables and a central parapeted two-storey porch, which features superimposed orders and a tall pierced parapet that supports the King's Beasts. To the right of the porch, there is a recessed bay with a large stairlight, while the projecting wings have prominent two-storey canted bays. Most of the windows are designed with mullions and transoms. On the left side, there is a two-storey square bay on the outer wall of the wing and a two-storey canted bay at the gable. The rear of the building has one canted bay window with a pyramidal roof, while most other windows are flush, with mullions and transoms on the ground floor and mullions only on the first floor.

Inside, the gallery features a panelled entrance hall and a large reception room that imitates a hall, complete with a balustraded dais and a carved three-bay arcade in a screens position.

Local climate

Haworth Art Gallery 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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