Co's House at Wellesley Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 2001. A C19 Office. 6 related planning applications.
Co's House at Wellesley Barracks
- WRENN ID
- leaning-soffit-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 2001
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Co's House at Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street, HX2 0BA
- OS grid reference
- SE 070 252
- Coordinates
- 53.72397, -1.89465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Commanding Officer's House at Wellesley Barracks, now used as an office, was built in 1875 and designed by an architect from the Royal Engineers. It is constructed from coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with raised and coped gables that have kneelers. The building has two tall external chimney stacks, quoins, and a plinth, and it stands two storeys high.
The main west front includes a central doorway with a glazed panel door and a wooden hood that has a segmental leaded top supported by wooden brackets. Above the doorway is a single window. To the right, a gabled wing projects slightly. On either side of the doorway are pairs of plain sash windows with segment heads, and above these are pairs of similar sash windows.
This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellington's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, commonly known as the 'Dukes'.
Local climate
Co's House at Wellesley Barracks 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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