Thorpe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1966. A C18 Cottage.
Thorpe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-remnant-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thorpe Cottage, 100, Knowl Road, Mirfield
- OS grid reference
- SE 200 204
- Coordinates
- 53.68014, -1.6978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpe Cottage is a small, simple cottage that is said to have been a former Free Grammar School. It likely dates from the 18th century but has undergone many alterations. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with a stone porch at the front, which dates from the early or mid-19th century. The porch has a reset doorway with a lintel dated 1706, and above it is a plaque from the early or mid-19th century inscribed with 'FREE Grammar School A.D. 1667'. The cottage includes recent and 19th-century openings, as well as a recent bay window. At the rear, there is a 19th-century mono-pitched extension. The date 1706 refers to the time when the school was enlarged, as noted in H. N. Pobjoy's "A History of Mirfield," published in 1968.
Local climate
Thorpe Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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