Cottage to Rear of Slitheroe Works Forming Office Accommodation for Whitley Rishworth Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. Cottage.

Cottage to Rear of Slitheroe Works Forming Office Accommodation for Whitley Rishworth Limited

WRENN ID
spare-rubblework-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottage to Rear of Slitheroe Works Forming Office Accommodation for Whitley Rishworth Limited, Slitheroe Bridge, Ripponden
OS grid reference
SE 035 187
Coordinates
53.66511, -1.94849
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a pair of single-cell cottages located at the rear of Slitheroe Works, which now serve as office accommodation for Whitley Rishworth Limited. Constructed in the late 18th century, the cottages are made of hammer-dressed stone and feature a stone slate roof. They are two storeys high, with each cottage having a doorway framed by tie-stone jambs and a flat-faced mullioned window with two wide lights on each floor. A central stack is positioned along the ridge of the roof.

Local climate

Cottage to Rear of Slitheroe Works Forming Office Accommodation for Whitley Rishworth Limited sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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