Machpelah Works is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Warehouse. 6 related planning applications.
Machpelah Works
- WRENN ID
- dusted-sentry-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Machpelah Works, Hebden Royd, HX7 8AU
- OS grid reference
- SD 995 270
- Coordinates
- 53.73947, -2.00883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Machpelah Works is a former fustian warehouse, built around 1840 and later used as a cabinet-maker’s workshop. The building is constructed of dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The front facade is three stories high, while the rear, facing the canal, rises four stories. Continuous sill bands run across each floor. The symmetrical front has seven bays. The original doorway features an architrave and Tudor arched lintel, and retains its original six-panelled door and panelled fanlight. Windows have skewback lintels, and most windows on the first and second floors retain their original 30-pane glazing, with central six-pane swivel openers. An eaves cornice runs along the top. An addition of two single-story bays in a matching style, with a cyma moulded cornice and low-parapet, is attached to the left-hand return wall. The rear of the building mirrors the front with similar fenestration. Gable stacks are visible on the return walls, which also have two bays of similar windows. The building is documented in C. Spencer’s "Hebden Bridge History Trail."
Local climate
Machpelah Works 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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