Lower Hall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. House.
Lower Hall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- buried-gable-claret
- 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
- Lower Hall Cottages, 1, Downham
- OS grid reference
- SD 784 441
- Coordinates
- 53.89337, -2.32949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Hall Cottages is a house, likely built in the early 19th century, with some remains from the late 16th century. It is constructed of rubble, primarily limestone, and features a stone slate roof. The building has three storeys.
To the left of the entrance door, there are mullioned windows that have an inner hollow chamfer and an outer casement moulding. The ground-floor window has five lights, while the first and second floors each have six lights. To the right of the door, there are chamfered mullioned windows typical of the 19th century, with four lights on the ground floor, three lights on the first floor, and two lights on the second floor. The door itself is framed by a chamfered stone surround. There are also traces of a blocked window to the right of the door, and a straight joint visible on the first and second floors. The house has chimneys located to the left of the door and at the right end.
The rear wall, which faces the garden of Downham Hall, is mostly blank except for a ground-floor outshut. Within this outshut, there is a deeply-moulded doorway with an ogee head in the rear wall of the house. The door is made of planks with bands of studs and features two decorative iron straps. Inside, the western room contains a late 18th-century fireplace with a tooled false keystone and a moulded stone mantel.
Local climate
Lower Hall Cottages 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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