Upper Rookes is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Upper Rookes
- WRENN ID
- woven-joist-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Rookes, Rookes Lane, HX3 8PU
- OS grid reference
- SE 142 265
- Coordinates
- 53.73492, -1.78587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Rookes is a house dated 1589, although it has been significantly remodeled in the early 20th century. It features finely dressed stone and a stone slate roof. The building has a hall and a cross-wing at the left end, forming an L shape with a three-gabled front consisting of three sections. The doorway in the right section has composite jambs and a lintel inscribed with 'IW 1589' within a shield. All the windows are double chamfered mullioned windows without hoodmoulds. To the right of the doorway is a five-light window with a four-light window above it. The central wall has an eight-light window with a four-light window above, and a parapet connects the two gables, featuring a rainwater chute topped with a carved head. The left wing projects forward and has a five-light window with a four-light window above it. All gables are coped and topped with crocketed finials. The left return wall has two extruded stacks with multiple offsets and a gable between them, which contains two two-light windows on each floor, along with two additional stacks. The rear of the house has been extensively remodeled, but the front retains its original late 16th-century exterior.
Local climate
Upper Rookes sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 2 applications
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- 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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