Golcar is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Golcar
- WRENN ID
- burning-plaster-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Golcar, 23, Scarhouse Lane, HD7 4DY
- OS grid reference
- SE 100 155
- Coordinates
- 53.63656, -1.84961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 23 on Scarhouse Lane in Golcar is an early to mid 19th century weavers house, part of a row of similar buildings. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables. The building has three storeys, although it appears as two storeys on the north side.
On the south elevation, the ground floor includes one door with a stone surround and a four-light stone mullioned window. The first and second floors each have a seven-light stone mullioned window, with 13 of the lights featuring glazing bars. On the north elevation, both the first and second floors have a two-light stone mullioned window.
Local climate
Golcar 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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