Abbott's Ladies House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1992. Almshouses.
Abbott's Ladies House
- WRENN ID
- errant-chimney-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1992
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Abbott's Ladies House, 5 and 6, Skircoat Green Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 092 233
- Coordinates
- 53.70653, -1.86064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbott's Ladies House is a pair of almshouses built around 1870 by F. Swindon-Barber. The structure is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with ashlar coped gables topped with finials. There are two tall ridge stacks, a chamfered plinth, and a first-floor band. The building is two stories high with four windows. It has two slightly projecting central gables, each containing two 4-light chamfered cross mullion windows. Above these are two 3-light chamfered mullion windows with wooden transoms and ashlar hoods, all fitted with glazing bar casements. On either side of the central gables are single doorways with moulded ashlar bow-headed door surrounds, featuring part glazed 6-panel doors, and beyond these are single narrow windows. Above, there are single lancet windows with moulded heads.
Local climate
Abbott's Ladies House 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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