Dam Head is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1954. House.

Dam Head

WRENN ID
pale-bailey-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1954
Type
House
Address
Dam Head, Whiskers Lane
OS grid reference
SE 100 274
Coordinates
53.74299, -1.84912
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dam Head is a 17th-century stone house that has been altered and possibly incorporates earlier work. The building features a single-storey central section flanked by two-storey cross wings that were remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a stone roof with a gable on the west wing and a hip on the east. The central part includes a large mullioned and transomed window divided into two sections, along with an arched doorway that has drip moulding. The wings contain modern casement windows and shutters. At the rear, there is a two-storey range with finials on a pair of gables, which also features altered casement windows.

Local climate

Dam Head 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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