Bents is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Laithe-house.
Bents
- WRENN ID
- carved-marble-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Laithe-house
- Address
- Bents, Horsehold Lane, Erringden
- OS grid reference
- SD 985 265
- Coordinates
- 53.73512, -2.02352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bents is a laithe-house, built in 1839 and marked with the initials "J B". This two-storey, single-bay cottage features a double-pile layout. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and topped with a stone slate roof. The west face includes a mistal doorway with a single light to the right, and a basket-arched cart entry with rusticated voussoirs and tie-stone jambs. Above this entry is a Venetian window with a projecting sill, impost, keystone, and an inscribed lintel. Next to a lean-to porch made of pitch-faced stone, there is a three-light flat-faced mullioned window, and above it, a four-light window. The right-hand return wall has two single-light attic windows in the gable. The rear features a doorway with a sill tie and a four-light window above, along with a similar cart entry and Venetian window above it. The cottage has coped gables and a single stack on the ridge, which has been reduced in height.
Local climate
Bents sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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