Moorside House is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Moorside House
- WRENN ID
- turning-granite-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moorside House, Burnley Road, Altham, BB5 5TZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 760 314
- Coordinates
- 53.77927, -2.36535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorside House is a house dating from circa 1830. It is built of scored stucco with quoins, painted white, and has a moulded gutter cornice and a stone slate roof with gable chimneys and copings. The house has a double pile three-bay plan, with a service wing to the rear of the first bay. It is two storeys high and symmetrical, designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The front features a Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould, and large four-light stone mullion windows, also with hoodmoulds. A right return wall has one similar three-light window on each floor. The rear of the house has a large Tudor-arched stairlight with radiating glazing bars and some sashed windows with glazing bars.
The interior includes a stone staircase with iron twist balusters, a moulded plaster ceiling frieze and alcove in the drawing room, and original door furnishings, including panels on one door decorated with paintings of flowers, possibly by Lydia Becker.
The house was built by Hannibal Leigh Becker, a chemical manufacturer, and was an early home of Lydia Becker, a pioneer of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, botanist, and painter.
Local climate
Moorside House 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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