Railings and Wall Outside Highfield United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Church.
Railings and Wall Outside Highfield United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- pale-clay-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Railings and Wall Outside Highfield United Reformed Church, New North Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 138 171
- Coordinates
- 53.65106, -1.79152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and wall outside Highfield United Reformed Church, located on New North Road, date from the mid-19th century. They are constructed of ashlar stone and feature piers with plain caps. The gatepiers are cylindrical, topped with cornices and similar capitals. There are cantilevered iron torcheres and elaborate cast iron railings, adding to the decorative quality of the structure.
Local climate
Railings and Wall Outside Highfield United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 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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