4, Towngate is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
4, Towngate
- WRENN ID
- spare-jade-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, Towngate, Holme Valley, HD9 1HA
- OS grid reference
- SE 142 081
- Coordinates
- 53.5699, -1.78601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century house, part of a larger group. It has an ashlar facade. The roof is stone slate, with a decorative dentilled eaves cornice. The house is three storeys high, with a three-bay frontage. A prominent feature is the central three-light bay window on all three floors, with glazing bars to the ground and first floor windows. To the left and right of the bay window are single bays, each containing a panelled door with a fanlight above, and single sash windows to the first and second floors. The rear elevation is three bays wide, with single sashes to the left, a large three-light window to the centre, and a single light window with a slender round arched head to the right, all on the first and second floors.
Local climate
4, Towngate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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