Tower of Former Holly Mount School in Old Fold Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. School tower.
Tower of Former Holly Mount School in Old Fold Garden
- WRENN ID
- rusted-storey-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- School tower
- Address
- Tower of Former Holly Mount School in Old Fold Garden, St Marys Way
- OS grid reference
- SD 811 228
- Coordinates
- 53.70169, -2.28706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower of the former Holly Mount School, built in 1839 by Messrs Whitehead as a factory school, is located in Old Fold Garden. It is constructed of dressed sandstone and designed in the Gothic style, featuring a rectangular plan with three diminishing stages. The tower has diagonal buttresses, set-offs at each stage, battlements, and crocketed pinnacles, with a clock face positioned at the third stage. At ground level, there is a large decorated datestone, likely once part of a door head, which forms a semi-circular arch with raised lettering that reads "1839" and "HOLLY MOUNT SCHOOL." Above this, a plaque indicates that Old Fold Garden was the site of Holly Mount School. The tower serves as a prominent landmark in the area.
Local climate
Tower of Former Holly Mount School in Old Fold Garden 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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