Abbott's Ladies Home is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1992. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Abbott's Ladies Home
- WRENN ID
- rusted-slate-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 Home, 1 and 2, Skircoat Green Road, HX3 0LA
- OS grid reference
- SE 092 234
- Coordinates
- 53.70724, -1.86105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbott's Ladies Home 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. It has two tall ridge stacks, a chamfered plinth, and a first-floor band. The building is two stories high and has four windows. The two central gables slightly project and contain two 4-light chamfered cross mullion windows, with above them two 3-light chamfered mullion windows that have wooden transoms and ashlar hoods, all fitted with glazing bar casements. On either side of the central gables are single doorways featuring moulded ashlar bow-headed doorways with 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 Home 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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