Shepley First School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. School. 2 related planning applications.
Shepley First School
- WRENN ID
- last-pilaster-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Shepley First School, Firth Street, Kirkburton, HD8 8DD
- OS grid reference
- SE 194 096
- Coordinates
- 53.5831, -1.70805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepley First School is a former Board School built in 1896. It features pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, designed in a Free Northern Renaissance style. The building has a two-storey central hall surrounded by single-storey classrooms, with three classrooms at the front and main entrances located between them. The central gabled section includes a large elliptical arched window with slender Ionic colonnettes as mullions and one transom, topped by a steep pediment with intricate carving in the tympanum, flanked and topped by urns. Each classroom on the sides forms a separate pavilion with a pyramidal roof and a small clerestory window topped by a gablet.
The girls' and boys' entrances are situated between the classrooms, featuring bulbous engaged Ionic columns and tall swan-necked enriched pediments. The clerestory of the hall rises behind as a wide gable, flanked by octagonal buttresses that end in richly carved cartouches and domical caps. This detail resembles the central gable at the front but includes a swagged frieze and an inscription at the apex reading "1896 BOARD SCHOOLS," topped by a small flat shell-head. This building is a particularly elaborate example of its type.
Local climate
Shepley First School receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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