Stanstead Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Weavers' houses. 1 related planning application.
Stanstead Cottages
- WRENN ID
- turning-floor-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Weavers' houses
- Address
- Stanstead Cottages, 3-5, Trawden Forest, BB8 8QB
- OS grid reference
- SD 914 389
- Coordinates
- 53.84695, -2.13127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stanstead Cottages are weavers' houses built around 1800. They are constructed from coursed watershot gritstone with dressed gritstone surrounds and feature a stone slate roof. The buildings stand three storeys high, with two windows each. Nos 3 and 4 were originally built as a pair, with No 5 added shortly after. Although all windows have been modernized, they remain in their original openings and are graduated in size from floor to floor. There is a modern lean-to at the ground floor of No 4, but the front and back of the cottages are otherwise complete. The cottages have coped gables with kneelers and ridge stacks.
Inside, Nos 3 and 4 originally had a joint top floor loom shop, which is now divided. Notably, No 3 features an unusual roof truss designed to increase usable floor area, with queen posts on the tie and a V strut on the collar. These cottages are a good example of a type of weavers' housing that is uncommon in the area.
Local climate
Stanstead Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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