Tower in Grounds of Sunnyside C100 Metres West of Crawshaw Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C19 Tower.

Tower in Grounds of Sunnyside C100 Metres West of Crawshaw Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rossendale
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
Tower
OS grid reference
SD 808 249
Coordinates
53.72048, -2.29226
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tower, located about 100 metres west of Crawshaw Hall, is a Grade II listed structure situated at the top of a wooded slope. It was originally the top of an underground chimney flue from the former Sunnyside Printworks, which dates back to 1839. The tower is made of rock-faced sandstone and has a square section, standing approximately 20 feet high. It features diagonal buttresses that extend above a prominent cornice, culminating in crocketed pinnacles.

Local climate

Tower in Grounds of Sunnyside C100 Metres West of Crawshaw Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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