Near Field is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Manufacturing/dwelling.
Near Field
- WRENN ID
- winter-tracery-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Manufacturing/dwelling
- Address
- Near Field, 1-2, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 065 128
- Coordinates
- 53.6121, -1.90247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Near Field is a mid-19th century building that served as both a manufacturing site and a dwelling. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched stone slate roof with a coped gable on the west side. Stone brackets support the gutter. The building has three storeys, with the ground floor at the back level with the earth.
On the north elevation, the ground floor has a central doorway with stone surrounds, flanked by two 2-light stone mullioned windows that have pronounced sills. The first floor contains two 2-light stone mullioned windows with a continuous pronounced sill band. The second floor features three 2-light stone mullioned windows, all with pronounced sills.
The south elevation has the ground floor back to earth. The first floor includes two 2-light stone mullioned windows with pronounced sills and one 3-light stone mullioned window with a pronounced sill. The second floor has a doorway with stone surrounds, two 2-light stone mullioned windows with a continuous pronounced sill band, and a single light window.
On the east gable, the ground floor has a doorway with a stone surround and one single light window with a stone surround, along with a single-storey extension. The first floor features one single light window with a stone surround, while the second floor has one 2-light stone mullioned window with a pronounced sill.
Local climate
Near Field 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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