Calder and Hebble Navigation, Canal Warehouse and Integral House at Elland Wharf Approximately 100 Metres of Elland Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. Canal warehouse and house. 1 related planning application.

Calder and Hebble Navigation, Canal Warehouse and Integral House at Elland Wharf Approximately 100 Metres of Elland Bridge

WRENN ID
proud-marble-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1986
Type
Canal warehouse and house
OS grid reference
SE 107 214
Coordinates
53.68928, -1.8391
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This canal warehouse and integral house dates to circa 1820, with extensions after 1837. It is located approximately 100 metres east of Elland Bridge on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It forms an L-shaped layout, comprising a three-bay gabled wing attached to the left of a five-bay main range which incorporates a wet dock. The building has two storeys with an attic to the wing.

The north-west elevation faces the canal. The wing has a plinth and features a central taking-in door flanked by windows, the first-floor windows retaining small-pane glazing. An attic taking-in door is partly obscured by a sign with a cat-head above. A ridge stack is present. The symmetrical main range has, to both floors, a basket-arched opening (the ground-floor example is now blocked) flanked by windows with projecting sills and wedge-shaped lintels.

The rear elevation of the main range is similarly fenestrated as the front, with the first-floor openings unblocked. A metal cat-head with side braces is on the right end. To the right end, set back, is the house, which forms the rear of the warehouse wing. It has two storeys and an attic, with three first-floor windows. The central doorway has a fanlight and a window above with stone surrounds. A segmental bay on the left features a three-light window with a single light above, topped by a lunette within a coped gable. A break in the stonework indicates a later added bay with single-light windows to each floor. The right-hand return of the main range has a large basket-arched opening with voussoirs and skewbacks, acting as a quoin to its left. To the right are two small windows, one altered to a doorway, with two first-floor windows, all with wedge-shaped lintels. A coped gable has kneelers and an apex stone.

Internally, the northern half of the ground floor of the main range is occupied by a wet dock, U-shaped to the east end which contains a dry landing for unloading. The southern half comprises the warehouse floor. The roof of the main range has a fish-bone king-post construction with additional bracing supporting three purlins to each roof pitch. The wing is fitted with a queen-post roof, similarly braced and supporting three purlins.

Originally occupied by the resident foreman and yard master, the house formed accommodation associated with the warehouse operations. Records from the Calder and Hebble Navigation Company's minute books suggest a warehouse existed before 1822, with subsequent planned enlargements and extensions in 1824, 1834 (including a flagged shed for shoddy), 1836, and 1837, implying the wet dock warehouse post-dates the latter year.

Local climate

Calder and Hebble Navigation, Canal Warehouse and Integral House at Elland Wharf Approximately 100 Metres of Elland Bridge 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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