Top Row is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. House.
Top Row
- WRENN ID
- lost-obsidian-swallow
- 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
- Top Row, 2, 3 and 4, Downham
- OS grid reference
- SD 784 443
- Coordinates
- 53.89476, -2.32953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 (Top Row) are a row of houses built in 1825. They are constructed from sandstone rubble and topped with a slate roof. The buildings are two storeys high and consist of three bays. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have plain stone surrounds. Each door is located to the right of its respective bay and also features plain stone surrounds. On the left-hand house (no. 2), there is a stone plaque with a cornice frame, inscribed with 'IT 1825'. The houses have shaped stone gutter brackets and chimneys located on the gables and between the houses.
Local climate
Top Row 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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