St John's Flats is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1976. Flats. 3 related planning applications.
St John's Flats
- WRENN ID
- tattered-ashlar-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1976
- Type
- Flats
- Address
- St John's Flats, Queens Road, Ilkley, LS29 9QL
- OS grid reference
- SE 113 471
- Coordinates
- 53.92079, -1.8285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John’s Flats is a pair of flats constructed between 1878 and 1879 by R Norman Shaw. The building is situated on a sloping site, slightly set back from Queens Road in Ilkley. It is two and three storeys high with a basement and attics. The exterior is of squared rubble construction. The west end of the building is angled slightly southwards, contributing to an asymmetrical composition.
The south-facing facade, which faces the road, has five windows. The leftmost window is modern, the second is an oriel window with castellated detailing and carved belly, and the remaining windows are primarily mullioned and transomed. The east end features an entrance, now blind, with an almost flat arch, moulded with a pendant swelling in the centre, and a dripmould above it. A prominent gable chimney projects over carved corbels, and the fenestration is scattered. The attics have been modernised and are clad in slate. Originally built for R W Atkinson, the building was converted into flats around 1955.
Local climate
St John's Flats sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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