Sweet Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Sweet Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-merlon-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sweet Briar Cottage, 37 and 39, Town Gate, Heptonstall, HX7 7NB
- OS grid reference
- SD 987 280
- Coordinates
- 53.74907, -2.02095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweet Briar Cottage is a pair of single-cell cottages dating from around 1700. They are constructed from hammer-dressed stone and feature a stone slate roof, rising to three storeys. Each cottage has a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a chamfered surround, along with a four-light double chamfered mullioned window on each floor, with the windows becoming progressively shorter in height. The ground floor window of No. 37 has been altered to a segmental bow window around 1980. The quoins at the left end are partly obscured by No. 35. The cottages have moulded gutter brackets, and the left-hand end has a coped gable with kneelers and a stack, while there is another stack on the ridge.
Local climate
Sweet Briar Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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