1-5, AITKEN STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Cottages. 4 related planning applications.
1-5, AITKEN STREET (See details for further address information)
- 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
- Cottages
- Address
- 1-5, AITKEN STREET (See details for further address information), BL0 0QG
- OS grid reference
- SD 791 202
- Coordinates
- 53.67834, -2.31737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of eleven millworkers' cottages built in 1833, with a returned end including four cottages on Aitken Street, and later restored. The cottages are constructed of coursed sandstone, with a slate roof and ridge chimneys. Each cottage features a board door set within a plain stone surround, and a single sash window on each floor. Moulded stone gutter brackets are also present. No. 1, which incorporates a shop, has a larger ground floor window with coupled top-hung casements designed to resemble sashes. Above the door on the first floor is a datestone inscribed “IRWELL VALE”. The cottages at 1-5 Aitken Street have top-hung casements that imitate sashes. The row forms a group with a matching row of cottages located on the opposite side of the street (Nos. 2-24).
Local climate
1-5, AITKEN STREET (See details for further address information) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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