Back O' T'Thorn is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Back O' T'Thorn
- WRENN ID
- lunar-gutter-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Back O' T'Thorn, 24 and 25, Downham, BB7 4BP
- OS grid reference
- SD 786 440
- Coordinates
- 53.89241, -2.32586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Back o' t'thorn is a house, formerly two cottages, built around 1800. It features limestone rubble construction, with the right-hand bay made of sandstone, and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds, with the first and second bays having two-light windows with square mullions. Each bay has a door on the left, all with plain stone surrounds; however, the right-hand door is now blocked. The two remaining doors each have a hood made of two pitched stone slates. To the left of each door, there is a straight joint, with the right-hand one indicating a break in the angle of the facade. There is a chimney to the right of each bay.
Local climate
Back O' T'Thorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 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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- Radon risk assessment
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