Steps and Entrance Archway to Street to Birchcliffe Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. Archway.
Steps and Entrance Archway to Street to Birchcliffe Centre
- WRENN ID
- sunken-doorway-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Archway
- Address
- Steps and Entrance Archway to Street to Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Royd
- OS grid reference
- SD 994 274
- Coordinates
- 53.74334, -2.00929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The steps and entrance archway to the street leading to the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge were built in 1898. The structure features pitch-faced retaining walls with ashlar dressings. The entrance has a semi-circular arch supported by moulded voussoirs and imposts, with raised rusticated quoins on either side. At the top of the archway, there is a shaped gable inscribed with "ANNO DOMINI 1898." The site also includes cast iron gates.
Local climate
Steps and Entrance Archway to Street to Birchcliffe Centre 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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