The Royal Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1973. Public house.

The Royal Public House

WRENN ID
patient-chapel-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1973
Type
Public house
Address
The Royal Public House, Upper Washer Lane
OS grid reference
SE 075 241
Coordinates
53.71342, -1.88656
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Public House, formerly known as Westair, is a stone building dating from 1877, designed in a free Gothic style. It has two main storeys and an additional storey featuring gables and stone dormers beneath a hipped slated roof. The façade includes various mullioned and transomed windows, as well as oriel windows. The entrance is flanked by stone hoods on either side. At the rear, there is a single-storey replacement wing that is not of significant interest. The front area has an incomplete balustrade and piers. This building was constructed by J E Wainhouse, a local builder known for the nearby tower and a figure of some local significance.

Local climate

The Royal Public 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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