Cribden House School is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. School.
Cribden House School
- WRENN ID
- turning-cornice-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Cribden House School, Haslingden Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 800 223
- Coordinates
- 53.69763, -2.30331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cribden House School is a large house, formerly known as Brynbella, built for the Whitehead family in the 19th century and now used as a school. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a rock-faced rear and a hipped slate roof. The building has a double-pile, four-bay plan and stands two storeys tall in a classical style. It features rusticated quoins, which are vermiculated at the ground floor, as well as string courses on two levels and a modillioned cornice.
The symmetrical garden front, facing east, has a two-bay centre that projects forward and includes four French windows at the ground floor, all with panelled jambs, consoles, and pediments. The central windows have segmental pediments, while the first floor features four-pane sashes with lugged architraves. The two-bay left return wall matches the centre of the garden front.
At the re-entrant angle, there is a service part at the rear, which also faces the drive. This area contains a square porch with channelled rustication, a round-headed doorway on one side, a matching window on the other side, and a balustraded parapet. Inside, the staircase and decorations are contemporary with the building.
Local climate
Cribden House School 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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