The Tentering Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1991. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.
The Tentering Tower
- WRENN ID
- lesser-bonework-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1991
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- The Tentering Tower, Stubbins Vale Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 788 183
- Coordinates
- 53.66086, -2.32088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tentering Tower is a derelict cloth store located on Stubbins Vale Road, originally built in 1866 for Porritt's Stubbins Vale Mill and raised around 1880. Constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone, except for the west wall which is made of coursed rubble, the building has a square plan and no roof. It was designed as an eye-catcher and was originally a single-storey structure, now appearing as two storeys with three symmetrical windows. The north, east, and south sides feature simple oversailing battlements.
The architectural front faces east and has three unglazed vertical-rectangular windows on each floor. Each side of the building has one similar window on each floor. The entrance front to the west includes a large round-headed doorway at the center of the ground floor and a loading doorway above, accessed by stone steps that are mostly fallen, located to the right. This entrance is flanked by windows similar to those at the front, although the right-hand ground floor window is now blocked. The interior is currently a void. Historically, the tower was used to store cloths before and after they were stretched on tenter frames, and it appears in a photograph from around 1870 as a single-storey building with cloths on long tenter frames in the field behind it.
Local climate
The Tentering Tower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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