Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Wholesale market. 1 related planning application.
Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables
- WRENN ID
- far-moat-dock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wholesale market
- Address
- Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables, Byram Street, HD1 1DR
- OS grid reference
- SE 145 169
- Coordinates
- 53.64927, -1.7819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables, built between 1887 and 1889, was designed by architect R S Drydale, who served as the Borough Surveyor. The ironwork was produced by the Whessoe Foundry Company of Darlington. The structure features cast iron walls and north lights that are fully glazed. It consists of six aisles, each supported by four giant iron columns adorned with elaborate foliate capitals. The girders display decorative patterns that have been pierced through. The market has hipped roofs supported by segment-shaped iron trusses, which also feature pierced decorative patterns. Glass canopies are held up by ornamental brackets with matching valences. Above these canopies, there are continuous round-arched lights arranged in two tiers, or three tiers where the ground slopes down towards the east. The frieze includes roundels and heraldic ornamentation.
Local climate
Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables 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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- 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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