Oakes School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. School.
Oakes School
- WRENN ID
- weathered-bailey-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Oakes School, Oakes Road, Huddersfield
- OS grid reference
- SE 117 176
- Coordinates
- 53.65503, -1.82339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakes School is a mid-19th century building constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a pitched slate roof. It features coped gables topped with iron finials and has a complex plan with multiple gables. The windows are primarily either mullion and transom crosses or mullioned with Caernarvon lintels. The doors have either two or four-centred arches, with moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds, and some windows include cusped oculi. The building has buttresses, and the most prominent feature is the tower above the boys' entrance, which rises four storeys. This tower includes string courses, clocks on the second floor, a machicolated cornice, a timber third floor with studs and diagonal planking, and a very steep pyramidal roof with sprockets.
Local climate
Oakes School 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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