Princess Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1973. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
Princess Buildings
- WRENN ID
- worn-nave-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1973
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Princess Buildings, Princess Street, HX1 1TS
- OS grid reference
- SE 093 252
- Coordinates
- 53.72399, -1.86042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Princess Buildings is a mid to late 19th-century classical stone corner building that stands three storeys tall. It features irregular window arrangements on the front and has six additional windows on the north side facing Crossley Street. The ground floor is rusticated and arcaded, while the first floor is adorned with engaged Corinthian columns and segmental pediments, including two oriel windows at the southern end of the front. The main entablature is highlighted by a balustrade with decorative elements at the corner and an enriched pediment above the pair of oriels. This building, along with the south extension of the White Swan Hotel and other listed buildings in the area, forms an important architectural group.
Local climate
Princess Buildings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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