The Old Parsonage is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Parsonage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pinnacle-rowan
- 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
- The Old Parsonage, Whitworth Rake, OL12 8XJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 887 176
- Coordinates
- 53.65536, -2.17112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Parsonage is a house, possibly the original parsonage, dating from the earlier 18th century and later extended. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a tiled roof with a chimney at the right gable. The building has a single-depth, two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, with an added bay set back to the left and a single-storey original porch set back at the right end.
The house is two storeys high. An inserted doorway is offset to the left of centre. To the left, there is one three-light window on each floor with chamfered mullions. To the right, there is a stepped triple-light window with a chamfered surround and mullions, and above this, a smaller similar window with what appears to be a raised sill. The masonry on the first floor is different and larger, suggesting that the walls have been raised.
The extension to the left, built with similar materials, is likely modern. The single-storey porch to the right has a stepped triple-light window, and there is a modern flat-roofed forward extension to the left. At the rear, there is a two-light fire window.
Local climate
The Old Parsonage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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