Intake Head Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Cottage.
Intake Head Cottages
- WRENN ID
- deep-rotunda-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Intake Head Cottages, 1 and 3, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 039 116
- Coordinates
- 53.60172, -1.94151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Intake Head Cottages, built in the early to mid 19th century, are constructed from hammer-dressed stone and feature a pitched stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high.
On the east elevation, the ground floor originally had four 2-light stone mullioned windows, but the mullions have been removed and replaced with modern casements. There is also one blocked 2-light stone mullioned window. The first floor has five 2-light stone mullioned windows, with the centre window blocked.
The west elevation features four 2-light stone mullioned windows on the ground floor, some of which have had their mullions removed and are partially blocked. The first floor also has four 2-light stone mullioned windows, with the central window blocked.
On the north gable, there is a former loading door to the first floor, along with a modern lean-to porch extension. The south gable has three 2-light stone mullioned windows on the first floor.
Local climate
Intake Head Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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