54, Sowerby Street is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. House.

54, Sowerby Street

WRENN ID
fading-truss-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1988
Type
House
OS grid reference
SE 056 233
Coordinates
53.70631, -1.91654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

54 Sowerby Street is a house dated 'ISS 1672', constructed from coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a partial basement, featuring two first-floor windows, though it originally extended further to the left. The basement, located on the right, has quoins on the right side and two chamfered quoined openings; the left opening has a later mullion and windows, while the right has a boarded door. There is a plinth at the base.

On the ground floor, there are two steps leading up to a boarded door set in a quoined, stop-chamfered moulded, ogee-arched doorway with a dated lintel. To the right of this door are two double-chamfered windows that were originally cross-windows. A moulded band runs along the building. On the first floor, there are two shorter windows similar to those below, featuring sixteen-pane sashes. An end stack is located on the right side. At the rear, there are two similar first-floor windows with sashes and glazing bars.

This house was the last meeting place of the Quaker Community in Sowerby Bridge.

Local climate

54, Sowerby Street 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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