Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, terrace walls, bridges, piers and steps is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1954. Almshouses. 9 related planning applications.

Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, terrace walls, bridges, piers and steps

WRENN ID
bitter-zinc-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1954
Type
Almshouses
Address
Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, terrace walls, bridges, piers and steps, Arden Road, Halifax, HX1 3AA
OS grid reference
SE 084 246
Coordinates
53.71778, -1.873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, built in 1863 by R Ives, is a large Gothic structure consisting of three blocks arranged around a garden court. The building is two storeys high and constructed from stone with slated roofs. It features a central battlemented tower with a stair turret and a high roof on the west block, along with additional turrets, gables, chimney stacks, and cresting along the roof ridges. The windows vary in design, including one-, two-, and three-light configurations with flat and cusped heads, some adorned with tracery, as well as oriels and bay windows. There is a chapel located at the upper level of the west side of the south block, which has a high roof. The site includes bridges with steps leading to the upper levels of the north and south blocks, and there are varied terraces with steps and piers on the garden side of each block.

Local climate

Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, terrace walls, bridges, piers and steps 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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