Lodge to Oakes School on Corner of Wellington Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. School lodge.

Lodge to Oakes School on Corner of Wellington Street

WRENN ID
under-bastion-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School lodge
Address
Lodge to Oakes School on Corner of Wellington Street, Oakes Road
OS grid reference
SE 117 176
Coordinates
53.65491, -1.82394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lodge to Oakes School, located at the corner of Wellington Street, is a mid-19th century building constructed from hammer-dressed stone. It features a pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and gables that have bargeboards supported by paired brackets. The lodge is two storeys tall and has sash windows in lancet shapes, some of which are paired and have cusped pointed heads. The ground floor includes a canted bay with pointed sashes and a hipped slate roof. There is also a timber porch with a hipped slate roof and a decorative carpentry valence.

Local climate

Lodge to Oakes School on Corner of Wellington Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 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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