The National Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. School building. 5 related planning applications.

The National Buildings

WRENN ID
ancient-threshold-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School building
Address
The National Buildings, Moor Lane, Clitheroe, BB7 1BE
OS grid reference
SD 742 415
Coordinates
53.86971, -2.39263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The National Buildings, dated 1839, is a two-storey school building located on Moor Lane. It features rough rendering and rusticated quoins, with a central projection. The gable ends have stone kneelers and the roof is covered with Welsh slate. There are three windows on the flanking sections, with the center section being shorter. All windows have stone surrounds and rectangular dripmoulds. The ground floor mirrors the upper floor's window arrangement, but there is a modern one-storey extension to the left that also covers the center. The projecting center has large finials on the gable ends and kneelers, and there is a stone plaque above one window, which has a rectangular dripmould, above a blocked door.

Local climate

The National Buildings 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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