Canal Warehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.

Canal Warehouse

WRENN ID
sheer-baluster-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hyndburn
Constituency
Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Warehouse
Address
Canal Warehouse, 49-53, Blackburn Road
OS grid reference
SD 742 285
Coordinates
53.7527, -2.39184
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Canal Warehouse, located on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, was built in 1836. It features watershot coursed sandstone on the front and side, with rubble at the rear, and has a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands four storeys tall. The road-facing side has two gables connected by a short range that includes a giant arch with rusticated voussoirs and a window on the second floor, with two windows on each floor flanking this arch. The block on the right extends as a long wing to the rear, featuring round-arched openings at the ground floor (now converted to windows), three windows on each of the two floors above, and three-tiered round-arched loading doors on the side and gable walls of the end bay. The warehouse was constructed by the Hargreaves Brothers, who were calico printers based in Broad Oak, Accrington.

Local climate

Canal Warehouse 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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