16a and 18, Swan Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Former town hall.
16a and 18, Swan Lane
- WRENN ID
- long-threshold-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former town hall
- OS grid reference
- SE 134 152
- Coordinates
- 53.6339, -1.79759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16A and 18 Swan Lane is a building dating from 1866, formerly known as Lockwood Town Hall. It is constructed of ashlar and features a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and is characterized by a moulded eaves cornice supported by stone brackets. There is a moulded cornice above the ground floor, along with a continuous moulded sill band and impost band on the first floor. The ground floor is rusticated, and there is a moulded plinth.
The façade includes six ranges of round-arched sash windows, with the first-floor windows having sunk panelled aprons, moulded voussoirs, and keystones. The central two bays project slightly and are topped with a pediment that has a cartouche inscribed "Town 1866 Hall" and sculpted foliage in the tympanum. The elevation facing North Street has two bays with similar detailing and features a one-storey rusticated extension with a moulded eaves cornice.
Local climate
16a and 18, Swan Lane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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