1, 3 and 5 Whitewall Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House.
1, 3 and 5 Whitewall Wood
- WRENN ID
- mired-belfry-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, 3 and 5 Whitewall Wood, Walmersley Old Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 813 146
- Coordinates
- 53.62765, -2.28408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1, 3, and 5 Whitewall Wood is a house dating from 1748, as indicated on the lintel, which has been altered from two cottages into one dwelling, with an attached cottage (No. 5) built around 1800. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone blocks with quoins and features a stone slate roof with brick chimney stacks at the gables.
The main house has a single-depth, two-bay plan with a rear outshut and stands two storeys tall. It has a continuous chamfered dripcourse, and the original doorway is offset to the right of centre, featuring a board door with a chamfered surround and a lintel inscribed with "L J : M 1748." The ground floor originally had double-chamfered mullion windows with two lights to the left and three lights to the right, but the second window has been altered into a door, and the others have been replaced with top-hung casements. The first floor has similar three-light windows, which have also been altered.
At the rear, the single-storey outshut has a door in the chamfered side wall, with the first bay featuring a two-light window that lacks a mullion, and the second bay has a first-floor window with a chamfered mullion. The rear of the outshut shows remains of similar windows. Inside, there are some large chamfered beams in the outshut, while the other beams, fireplaces, and doors are consistent with the building's date.
No. 5, attached to the right and at a lower level, is built with watershot coursing and consists of one bay and two lower storeys. It has a doorway to the right and one vertical rectangular window on each floor, both featuring 19th-century-style sills and heads. This cottage is included in the listing as part of the group.
Local climate
1, 3 and 5 Whitewall Wood sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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