Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Residential.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-oriel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Briar Cottage, 43, Downham
- OS grid reference
- SD 785 441
- Coordinates
- 53.8932, -2.32803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a pair of houses dating from the late 18th century. They are built from squared watershot sandstone and feature a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys, with No. 43 on the left consisting of one bay and No. 44 on the right comprising two bays. The windows are tripartite with plain stone surrounds and square mullions, except for the right-hand first-floor window of No. 44, which has a plain stone surround. All windows are sashed with glazing bars, except for the left-hand ground-floor window of No. 43, which is modern and has glazing bars. The doors, which have plain stone surrounds, are located to the right of the left-hand bay and at the far right. There are shaped stone gutter brackets, and chimney stacks are positioned on the gables and to the right of the left-hand door.
Local climate
Briar Cottage 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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