28-32, Westgate is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
28-32, Westgate
- WRENN ID
- night-buttress-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 28-32, Westgate, HD1 1NX
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 167
- Coordinates
- 53.64713, -1.78447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 28 to 32 on Westgate are mid-19th century buildings constructed of ashlar stone, featuring a hipped slate roof and rising four storeys. The façade is distinguished by a deeply moulded cornice with modillions and raised quoins. The buildings present five ranges of sash windows, with a rounded corner facing Railway Street.
Nos 28 and 30 boast impressive contemporary shopfronts characterized by horizontally rusticated piers and round-arched windows adorned with moulded voussoirs and keystones, separated by fluted columns topped with Tower of the Winds capitals. At the west end, there is a 12-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight. No 32 has similar columns, although its upper section is obscured by a modern fascia.
The first-floor windows are framed by moulded surrounds, pulvinated friezes, and cornices. The second-floor windows are linked to the first-floor ones by fluted consoles and feature moulded surrounds with triangular pediments on consoles. The third-floor windows have shouldered moulded surrounds.
On the corner, the first-floor window is tripartite, with square Tuscan columns as mullions, a gadrooned keystone, and an entablature. The second-floor window is connected to it by fluted consoles and has a moulded surround with an entablature, while the central light features a further moulded surround with a keystone and a broken segmental pediment. The third-floor window has a shouldered moulded surround, festoons at the sides, and a moulded sill.
Local climate
28-32, Westgate 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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