Abbott's Ladies Home is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1992. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Abbott's Ladies Home
- WRENN ID
- empty-lancet-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1992
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Abbott's Ladies Home, 7, Skircoat Green Road, HX3 0LA
- OS grid reference
- SE 092 233
- Coordinates
- 53.70651, -1.86105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbott's Ladies Home is an almshouse built around 1870 by F. Swindon-Barber. It features coursed rubble construction with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with ashlar coped gables topped with ball finials. The building has a single reduced gable with ridge stacks and a chamfered plinth. The doorway is slightly off center and has a moulded ashlar bow-headed surround with a part glazed eight-panel door. To the left of the entrance is a three-light chamfered mullion window with wooden transom and glazing bar casements. Adjacent to this is a slightly projecting gabled wing that contains a three-light chamfered cross mullion window, also with glazing bar casements.
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
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- 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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