29 and 30, Tong End 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.
29 and 30, Tong End
- WRENN ID
- steep-roof-umber
- 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
- 29 and 30, Tong End, Whitworth, OL12 8BJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 883 186
- Coordinates
- 53.66403, -2.17854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 and 30 Tong End is a farmhouse dated 1721, as noted on the lintel of the porch. It has been extended and altered into two dwellings, with renovation work ongoing since 1984. The building is constructed from coursed thin sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof.
The farmhouse has a single-depth three-bay plan, with a porch added to the front of the second and third bays, and a fourth bay added to the left end. It stands two storeys tall, with its back facing the road. There is a continuous dripcourse, and a large single-storey gabled porch that includes a doorway on the right side, inscribed with "I S: 1721". To the left of the porch, there are recessed mullion windows on both floors: two square lights in the first bay and three lights in the second bay, the latter featuring narrow centre lights. The first bay has an inserted plain doorway, while the added bay to the left has altered windows on both floors. The right return wall has a recessed two-light window with a hoodmould at the first floor, and the rear wall is blind.
Inside, the original first bay contains large crudely-chamfered beams, one of which has housings from its previous use as a cruck-blade, along with stop-chamfered joists. The second bay features similar beams, undecorated joists, and a quarter-turn stone staircase at the rear wall. The added bay includes a 19th-century iron fireplace with a decorated surround and an old oven-and-boiler kitchen range.
Local climate
29 and 30, Tong End 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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