Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 2001. Officers' mess, offices. 3 related planning applications.

Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks

WRENN ID
steep-chalk-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 2001
Type
Officers' mess, offices
Address
Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street
OS grid reference
SE 070 252
Coordinates
53.72362, -1.89472
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is the officers' mess for the former Wellesley Barracks, constructed in 1875 and designed by the Royal Engineer's architect. It features coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs that include five ridge stacks and a single gable stack, along with raised coped gables and kneelers. The structure is two storeys tall and has a main east facade with very irregular fenestration and Gothic Revival style detailing.

A projecting off-centre porch is supported by bold circular columns with foliate capitals and has pointed arches, topped with a hipped slate roof. The inner doorway features a chamfered surround and a 20th-century door, with two small sash windows above. To the left, there is a slightly projecting gable that contains two large cross mullion windows on the ground floor and three sashes under a single pointed relieving arch above, followed by a single-storey projecting wing with a canted bay front featuring cross mullion windows. To the right, there is a single sash window, then a pair of sashes on both floors, leading to another slightly projecting gable with three sashes below and two sashes above. This is followed by another pair of sashes and a single sash on both floors, with a slightly projecting gable end that has three sashes below and three tall narrow sashes above, all under a Gothic relieving arch.

Additionally, a small gabled porch projects from the right return, featuring a moulded doorway under a segmental head. This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellington's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, known as the 'Dukes'.

Local climate

Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks 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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