Lydgate Parsonage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Parsonage. 2 related planning applications.
Lydgate Parsonage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-truss-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1982
- Type
- Parsonage
- Address
- Lydgate Parsonage, Holmfirth Road, Holme Valley, HD9 7LF
- OS grid reference
- SE 159 091
- Coordinates
- 53.57867, -1.76129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lydgate Parsonage is a detached parsonage built in the Jacobean style, which also includes a Sunday School on the ground floor. Constructed in 1842, it features hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings and quoins. The building has a stone slate roof with gable copings and carved kneelers, along with tall diagonally set stacks that have shaped copings. It is two storeys high, with the main frontage comprising three bays. The ground floor has three tall 6-light mullioned and transomed double chamfered windows, while the first floor has three 2-light double chamfered windows. At the rear, there is a double pile cross wing with a two-storey ashlar canted bay on the right gable and a Tudor arched doorway on the side.
Local climate
Lydgate Parsonage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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