Poole House is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. A C19 House.

Poole House

WRENN ID
shifting-spindle-juniper
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
Poole House, 1, the Square, Whalley
OS grid reference
SD 731 362
Coordinates
53.82156, -2.40888
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poole House is a mid 19th-century house located in Whalley, on The Square. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are framed with chamfered stone surrounds and have moulded hoods, with an inner hollow chamfer. Most windows are of two lights, except for the middle window on the first floor, which has one light. The mullion has been removed from the left-hand ground-floor window. The central bay contains a door that has a chamfered stone surround with a Tudor-arched head and a moulded hood. The house has coped gables and a chimney on the left-hand gable.

Local climate

Poole House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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