Darwen House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Darwen House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-finial-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Darwen House, 52, Main Road, Bolton-Le-Sands, LA5 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 678
- Coordinates
- 54.10394, -2.79067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darwen House is a house built around 1800, constructed from slobbered rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It features a two-unit double-pile plan with a central entrance and gable stacks. The building has two storeys and two bays. Notable architectural details include chamfered quoins and plain stone surrounds for the windows and door. The windows are sash style. There is a cellar opening with a plain stone surround located under the right-hand window. Additionally, the house has stone gutter brackets and coping with a kneeler on the left-hand gable.
Local climate
Darwen House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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