26, Tong End is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
26, Tong End
- WRENN ID
- dim-barrel-smoke
- 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
- 26, Tong End, Whitworth, OL12 8BJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 883 185
- Coordinates
- 53.66371, -2.17811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dated 1748, and altered subsequently. It is built of coursed, thin sandstone rubble, with a stone slate roof and two ridge chimneys.
The house is L-shaped, comprising a double-depth, three-bay main section and a separately-roofed, one-bay wing located in front of the first bay. The main house is two storeys high, while the wing is lower. The building’s rear faces the road. The present entrance is through a doorway in the left gable wall. The front, facing the garden, has a plain doorway in the second bay, a triple-paned window to the left, and a similar double-paned window to the right, all with glazing bars forming four panes each. The first floor has two windows over the second bay and one over the third bay. A datestone inscribed “ES S 1748” is built into the garden wall below the steps leading to the front door.
The interior features chamfered beams, fielded panel doors, and two matching window seats, which appear to be original. The front service wing contains a first-floor kitchen with a large, rectangular stone fireplace.
Local climate
26, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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