Hipperholme Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. School. 4 related planning applications.
Hipperholme Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- ghost-porch-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- School
- Address
- Hipperholme Grammar School, Bramley Lane, HX3 8JE
- OS grid reference
- SE 124 258
- Coordinates
- 53.72851, -1.8132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hipperholme Grammar School is a school building dating from around 1783, designed by the local architect Longbottom. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof over a central single-storey block. This block is symmetrical and includes a central projecting gabled portion with quoins, a recess for an inscription tablet that records the founders in Latin, a cornice on consoles, a clock face, and a gable topped with a bell turret added in 1835. On either side of this central block are three bays of tall sash windows. The roof is hipped and has stone ridge tiles.
There are later extensions added around 1906 on either side, which are gabled and two storeys high, designed in the Vernacular Revival style. These extensions feature stepped lights with hoodmoulds and double chamfered mullioned windows, along with coped gables that have kneelers and finials. The school was endowed by Matthew Broadley in 1648 and Samuel Sunderland in 1671, and it was rebuilt in 1783. In 1880, it was reconstituted as a first-grade Public School, coinciding with the construction of a large Boarding House for the Headmaster that included accommodation for pupils.
Local climate
Hipperholme Grammar School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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