Thorpe House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
Thorpe House
- WRENN ID
- carved-tallow-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thorpe House, Finthorpe Lane, HD5 8TU
- OS grid reference
- SE 173 154
- Coordinates
- 53.63521, -1.73847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpe House is a mid-19th century building located on Finthorpe Lane in Almondbury. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the sides are constructed from hammer-dressed stone. It features a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables supported by kneelers. The house has two storeys and five ranges of sash windows on the first floor, along with French casements on the ground floor. The entrance door is set in a stone frame and is flanked by Tuscan pilasters, topped with a moulded cornice. At the rear, there are two ranges of bipartite sashes with glazing bars, as well as a round-arched staircase window that also has glazing bars. Additionally, there are various office extensions at the rear of the building.
Local climate
Thorpe House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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