8 and 8a, Dowker Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Duplex. 4 related planning applications.
8 and 8a, Dowker Street
- WRENN ID
- old-wall-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Duplex
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 8 and 8a, Dowker Street, HD3 4JB
- OS grid reference
- SE 116 160
- Coordinates
- 53.64092, -1.82499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An early 19th-century building situated on Dowker Street, comprising numbers 8 and 8A. The structure is built of hammer-dressed stone with a pitched roof of stone slate. The gable ends are pediment-shaped, featuring semi-circular windows within the tympana. The building is two storeys high, with a prominent band running horizontally across the facade. It has three ranges of windows, each set within plain, raised surrounds.
Local climate
8 and 8a, Dowker Street 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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