Block to Road of Spen Valley Carpet Works (Right Hand Part) is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Industrial building.
Block to Road of Spen Valley Carpet Works (Right Hand Part)
- WRENN ID
- dusted-stair-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Block to Road of Spen Valley Carpet Works (Right Hand Part), Wakefield Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 207 236
- Coordinates
- 53.70931, -1.68638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The right-hand part of the front block of the Spen Valley Carpet Works is a classical building dating from around 1870. The ground floor features rusticated ashlar stone, while the first floor is made of hammer-dressed stone. It has a hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice and a blocking course. The building is two storeys high and has a moulded string course between the floors.
The facade is symmetrical with 13 bays, and the central bay projects forward, topped with an open segmental pediment. There is a large central round-arched doorway with double panelled doors and a fanlight that has radial glazing bars. The doorway is framed by pilaster-like vermiculated surrounds that support a small bracketed cornice. Above the doorway, there is a three-light window with a pilaster surround and mullions featuring foliated capitals, along with a frieze and segmental pediment above it.
The ground floor has square-headed sash windows, while the first floor features round-arched sash windows with keys, impost blocks, and aprons.
Local climate
Block to Road of Spen Valley Carpet Works (Right Hand Part) receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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