Thurstonland Methodist Sunday School to West of Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1977. Place of worship. 1 related planning application.
Thurstonland Methodist Sunday School to West of Chapel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1977
- Type
- Place of worship
- Address
- Thurstonland Methodist Sunday School to West of Chapel, Kirkburton, HD4 6XX
- OS grid reference
- SE 163 104
- Coordinates
- 53.58993, -1.75381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thurstonland Methodist Sunday School, located to the west of the chapel, is a former Sunday school building dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of hammer dressed stone and features a stone slate roof with gable copings and two ashlar stacks. The building is single storey and consists of five bays. The central bay has a flat-roofed stone porch that includes a blocking course and a central round arched window with glazing bars. There are two casement windows on each side of the porch and four casement windows at the rear.
Local climate
Thurstonland Methodist Sunday School to West of Chapel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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