Melling Clough is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Melling Clough
- WRENN ID
- patient-parapet-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Melling Clough, 252-258, Bacup Road, Todmorden, OL14 7HJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 915 237
- Coordinates
- 53.7098, -2.1302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages dating from 1837, located on Bacup Road in Todmorden. The cottages are constructed of watershot masonry with a stone slate roof and demonstrate Vernacular Revival style. They feature quoins and are two storeys high with four bays per cottage. Each bay originally had a doorway with tie-stones and a chamfered surround; the doorway to number 254 was altered to create a window, integrating the cottage with number 252. Each bay also features a double-chamfered mullioned window of three lights. Decorative moulded brackets support the gutter. There are three stacks on the ridge. A two-storey, single-cell extension, rendered and with a flat roof, was added to number 252 around 1983. A date tablet, set within the spandrels of a quatrefoil, is positioned above the former doorway to number 254. These cottages bear a strong resemblance to numbers 6 to 36 (even) Square Road, which date from 1795 and 1809, suggesting their survival represents an unusual vernacular example, despite a stylistic approximation to Tudor Revival architecture.
Local climate
Melling Clough sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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