Wood Top is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. House.
Wood Top
- WRENN ID
- scarred-zinc-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wood Top, Wood Top Road, Hebden Royd
- OS grid reference
- SD 997 263
- Coordinates
- 53.73385, -2.0046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Top is a house dating from the mid-17th century, which includes an early 19th-century cottage and barn that have been converted into a single dwelling. The property is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high, with the 17th-century section designed as a cross-wing. This part has a plinth, a cavetto moulded string course, and a coped gable with kneelers and finials. The gable displays a double chamfered mullioned and transomed window with eighteen lights, featuring two king mullions, and a similar window is present on the first floor. The left-hand return wall includes a cross-window with a two-light window above it. There is an inserted 19th-century doorway with monolithic jambs.
Attached at right angles is a single-cell cottage that has a flat-faced mullioned window with two lights and a similar window above. A re-used engraved stone on the property reads: V EHOROSICKVITO/ 1 6 5 7 / W C, which may translate to "as the hour passes so passes life."
At a lower level, there are cottages and a barn that now form part of the same dwelling. The barn features a semi-circular cart entry, while the cottages have flat-faced mullioned windows with two and three lights, and quoins. There is a single stack on the cross-wing. At the rear, there is a three-cell cottage range with a single-pitched roof, also two storeys high. The ground floor has a chamfered mullioned window with three lights and two double chamfered mullioned windows with six lights, while the first floor has three flat-faced mullioned windows with five lights and two stacks along the ridge.
Inside the cross-wing, there is a large elliptical arched fireplace and reeded spine-beams and joists.
Local climate
Wood Top sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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