Waterfall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Terraced housing. 2 related planning applications.
Waterfall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-passage-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Terraced housing
- Address
- Waterfall Cottages, 1-6, Ainsley Lane, HD7 6NQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 040 120
- Coordinates
- 53.60528, -1.94097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterfall Cottages is a terrace of six cottages built in 1848, constructed from hammer-dressed coursed stone with a pitched stone slate roof. The gabled copings sit on moulded footstones, and there are stone brackets and six ashlar stacks with moulded dressings. The cottages are two storeys high.
On the south elevation, the central section protrudes slightly and features a gabled roof with a roll-top gable finial. The datestone indicates the year of construction as 1848. The ground floor of this central section has two doorways with stone quoins, a shallow false arch, and a hood mould. Above, on the first floor, there is a two-light stone mullioned window. Flanking the central section are three cottages on each side, each with a doorway featuring stone surrounds and tie-stones, a shallow false arch, one chamfered and recessed stone mullioned window on the ground floor, and a similar three-light stone mullioned window on the first floor. One of the ground floor windows has been altered to a two-light design.
On the north elevation, each dwelling has a later doorway and one three-light chamfered and recessed stone mullioned window on the ground floor. The first floor features one chamfered two-light stone mullioned window (with one mullion removed) and one later single light window. The east and west gables each have projecting chimney stacks with raking offsets.
Local climate
Waterfall Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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