16 and 17, Towngate is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
16 and 17, Towngate
- WRENN ID
- grey-footing-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 16 and 17, Towngate, HX3 8JB
- OS grid reference
- SE 123 257
- Coordinates
- 53.72818, -1.81503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century house, subsequently divided into two cottages, with alterations from the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building is a three-bay, single-aisled house featuring a timber arcade with post and braces to the arcade plate. A king post truss is present. The interior of the left-hand cottage features panelling dating back to around 1720, with large fielded panels. The front elevation, two stories high, displays two bays of flat-faced mullioned windows with five lights, from which two mullions have been removed, as well as a three-light window above. The central bay contains a doorway with monolithic jambs and a three-light window above, from which the mullions have also been removed. Two chimney stacks are present, with one extruded to the left-hand gable. The interior of the right-hand cottage contains a segmental arched fireplace built on corbelled jambs, and includes simple chamfer details.
Local climate
16 and 17, Towngate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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