Rockcliffe Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Rockcliffe Wood

WRENN ID
last-attic-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rossendale
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rockcliffe Wood, Wesley Place, OL13 8JE
OS grid reference
SD 863 220
Coordinates
53.69507, -2.20875
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rockcliffe Wood is a farmhouse dated 1752, now used as a house. It is built of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a slate roof that has one chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable. The building has three bays and a projecting porch located at the junction of the second and third bays. It is two storeys high, with a two-storey gabled porch that includes gable copings and kneelers. The porch has a plain doorway, a 2-light casement window above, and a datestone inscribed with "H T B 1752" in the apex. To the left, there is a plain doorway at the left end, a 3-light mullioned window in the first bay, and a modern casement window above. The second bay on the right features a large 3-light mullioned window on each floor.

Local climate

Rockcliffe Wood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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