Britannia Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1968. Former bank.
Britannia Buildings
- WRENN ID
- floating-copper-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1968
- Type
- Former bank
- Address
- Britannia Buildings, Briggate
- OS grid reference
- SE 107 212
- Coordinates
- 53.6876, -1.83944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Britannia Buildings is a former bank built in 1893 by E. W. Johnson of Southport for the Halifax and Huddersfield Banking Company. The building is constructed of ashlar and features Aberdeen granite columns. It showcases a giant Corinthian order that stands on a plinth and supports a richly decorated entablature and balustrade adorned with urns. At the outer ends, there are pilasters, and coupled columns at the center support a pediment that projects forward, featuring an enriched frieze and tympanum. The tympanum includes a cartouche, and at the top of the pediment is a large figure of Britannia. Below this, there is a three-light window with foliated consoles acting as mullions. The doorway has been altered but retains a modillioned pediment above it. The side panels are decorated with intricately carved coats of arms, with the Halifax coat of arms on the left. The building is prominently located at the head of Elland Bridge.
Local climate
Britannia Buildings 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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