Water Troughs in Drystone Walled Recess with Setts to Fronts is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1987. Water troughs.

Water Troughs in Drystone Walled Recess with Setts to Fronts

WRENN ID
high-flint-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1987
Type
Water troughs
Address
Water Troughs in Drystone Walled Recess with Setts to Fronts, Gate Head
OS grid reference
SE 055 119
Coordinates
53.60439, -1.91689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These water troughs are located in a drystone-walled recess and are fronted by stone setts. They date from the 18th century or earlier and are made of millstone grit. There are three stone troughs set on a rubblestone plinth, with the central trough featuring an unstoppered outlet hole. Additionally, there is a fourth, broken trough positioned at ground level on the right. The recess itself is constructed of drystone rubble and has walls that curve towards a flat rear section, with rubblestone coping and some tooled monolithic coping stones on the left-hand side. In the left section, a stone-lintelled conduit directs water into the topmost trough, while another conduit is located at a low level in the right-hand section. The area in front of the troughs is paved with stone setts.

Local climate

Water Troughs in Drystone Walled Recess with Setts to Fronts 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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