Walls to Oakes School Along School Street Oakes Road and Wellington Street Side of Playground is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Wall.
Walls to Oakes School Along School Street Oakes Road and Wellington Street Side of Playground
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rood-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- SE 117 176
- Coordinates
- 53.65477, -1.82329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls surrounding Oakes School, located along School Street, Oakes Road, and the Wellington Street side of the playground, date from the mid-19th century. These dwarf walls are constructed from hammer-dressed stone and feature coping. The gatepiers are made of ashlar and topped with conical caps. Additionally, there are cast iron railings adorned with decorative finials.
Local climate
Walls to Oakes School Along School Street Oakes Road and Wellington Street Side of Playground 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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