Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Gateway.

Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office

WRENN ID
keen-finial-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1988
Type
Gateway
Address
Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office, Sowerby New Road
OS grid reference
SE 055 233
Coordinates
53.70664, -1.91711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway in the grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office is an early to mid-19th century structure featuring flanking walls. Constructed from rubble brought to course, the gateway has a wall that extends approximately 2 meters to the west and about 5 meters at a right angle to the south. The north side, facing the garden, showcases a quoined pointed-arched gateway with double gates, flanked by slightly projecting embattled towers that are square in plan, each featuring a tall arrow slit. There is a continuous ashlar band on plain blocks, with a similar band at the top of the towers. The lower band continues across the embattled wall, which has flat-coped merlons and steps down to the south. On the west side of the south wall, there is a blocked quoined doorway.

Local climate

Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office 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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