Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Museum, cotton mill. 1 related planning application.
Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry
- WRENN ID
- kindled-porch-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Museum, cotton mill
- Address
- Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry, Holcombe Road, BB4 4NP
- OS grid reference
- SD 778 215
- Coordinates
- 53.68949, -2.33743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry is a cotton spinning mill and attached warehouse originally built in the early 19th century and rebuilt in 1859-60 after a fire. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof. The rectangular spinning block is 14 bays long, featuring a three-span roof and three storeys. The warehouse extends at the east end, consisting of seven bays and three storeys at a slightly lower level. All windows are segmental-headed, with glazing bars; the ground floor windows are square with nine panes, except at the right end where they have been altered to serve as doors. The upper floors have rectangular windows with twelve panes. The warehouse includes three vertically-aligned loading doors in the fourth bay, a basket-arched wagon tunnel to the right, and segmental-headed nine-pane windows. Inside, there are iron columns supporting wooden beams. The ground floor has been altered, while the first floor has been restored as a spinning room, which is equipped with working mules among other features.
Local climate
Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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