Holywell House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House.
Holywell House
- WRENN ID
- secret-storey-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holywell House, Station Road, Stainland and District
- OS grid reference
- SE 089 197
- Coordinates
- 53.67424, -1.86657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holywell House is a mansion built around 1860, currently serving as a nursing home. It was constructed for the Shaw family, who were mill owners. The front is made of ashlar stone and features a slate roof. The building has a symmetrical nine-bay façade that projects forward in the second and eighth bays, as well as in the central five bays. It is two storeys high.
The central five bays are elaborately designed with deep-set round-headed windows on both floors. The ground floor features doors on either side, flanked by colonnettes. Above the central window on the first floor, which is now blocked, there is a balcony supported by consoles. A heavy cornice with consoles carries a parapet above, and there is a simpler attic storey over the central three bays. The second and eighth bays each have two-storey canted bay windows topped with a simpler cornice. The outermost bays contain flat-headed windows, with cornices on consoles above the ground floor windows.
The building is topped with four heavily moulded chimneys that are symmetrically placed. While some windows are casements, most of the first-floor windows are sash windows. The rear elevation features a central element with an elaborate Venetian window on the first floor, with jambs formed by coupled pilasters.
Local climate
Holywell House 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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