Townley House is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1984. House.
Townley House
- WRENN ID
- rough-balcony-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Townley House, Main Street, Grindleton
- OS grid reference
- SD 758 455
- Coordinates
- 53.90547, -2.36854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townley House is a house built around 1800, constructed from pebbledashed rubble and topped with a slate roof. It is two storeys high and features two bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds; the ground floor windows are tripartite with semi-circular heads and square mullions, while the first floor has two-light windows with square mullions. The door, located between the bays, also has a plain stone surround with a semi-circular head.
Above the door is a re-set datestone inscribed '1727 GAA', and to the left of the left-hand bay is another re-set stone that reads 'RA 1624'.
Local climate
Townley House 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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