Chimney Tower and Boilerhouse at Wyke Middle School is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2000. Chimney, boilerhouse.
Chimney Tower and Boilerhouse at Wyke Middle School
- WRENN ID
- solitary-tower-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2000
- Type
- Chimney, boilerhouse
- Address
- Chimney Tower and Boilerhouse at Wyke Middle School, Huddersfield Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 153 273
- Coordinates
- 53.74216, -1.76814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chimney tower and boilerhouse at Wyke Middle School, built in 1904, is constructed from dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. It has a chamfered plinth and an octagonal chimney shaft with alternating broad and narrow facades. The narrow facades are adorned with bold ashlar rustication blocks and scroll console brackets at the base. The broad sections include tall segment-headed openings fitted with louvres. The upper section of the chimney is made of ashlar and features a moulded cornice, battlements, curved parapets, and merlons. There is a single-storey lean-to boilerhouse and coal store on either side of the chimney. This structure was designed to serve the Wyke secondary and infant schools.
Local climate
Chimney Tower and Boilerhouse at Wyke Middle School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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