Fielden School of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Art school. 4 related planning applications.

Fielden School of Art

WRENN ID
hollow-niche-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
Art school
Address
Fielden School of Art, Ewood Lane, Todmorden, OL14 7DD
OS grid reference
SD 929 248
Coordinates
53.72043, -2.10816
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fielden School of Art is a former art school built around 1871, likely designed by John Gibson, who also created Centre Vale House around the same time. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof in the Gothic Revival style. It consists of a single-storey central hall flanked by two-storey cross-wings on either end, running from north to south.

The west face has five bays, each topped with gables that have copings and moulded finials. The first bay features a canted bay window with cusped lights and sunken spandrels, above which are two similar lights with a quatrefoil at the apex set in a sunken pointed arch. The central three bays have tall windows with three lights on the outer sides and four lights in the middle, all adorned with decorative circles above. A gabled porch is positioned between the fourth and fifth bays, featuring a pointed arched doorway. The fifth bay is part of the cross-wing, which includes a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window above, both with shouldered arches.

The right-hand return wall has three bays, each with gabled dormers that contain two-light windows. A central doorway is sheltered by a gabled porch with a pointed arch, hoodmould, coping, and finial, flanked by windows with three cusped lights and relieving arches above. The east face mirrors this design, with the second and fourth bays featuring curvilinear tracery and a central bay showcasing a large rose window with a cusped star of David.

Local climate

Fielden School of Art sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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