Victoria Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Tower. 4 related planning applications.
Victoria Tower
- WRENN ID
- dim-pilaster-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Victoria Tower, Castle Hill
- OS grid reference
- SE 151 139
- Coordinates
- 53.62225, -1.77223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria Tower, built between 1897 and 1899, commemorates Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The architect was Isaac Jones, of Herne Hill, London, and the contractors were Messrs Ben Graham of Crosland Moor. Constructed from hammer-dressed stone, the tower is slightly battered and square in plan, featuring machicolations and a crenellated parapet. A stair tower corbelled out on the north-east corner. Various single-light windows are incorporated into the design. The tower was erected in place of a planned Free Public Library.
Local climate
Victoria Tower 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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