Freemasons Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Hall. 5 related planning applications.

Freemasons Hall

WRENN ID
lapsed-corridor-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Hall
Address
Freemasons Hall, 80, Fitzwilliam Street, HD1 5BB
OS grid reference
SE 143 170
Coordinates
53.65021, -1.78499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Freemasons Hall, located at 80 Fitzwilliam Street, is a mid-19th century building constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features a modillioned eaves cornice and a blocking course. There is a string course at the first floor level and continuous sills. The building has rusticated quoins and three ranges of sash windows. The first-floor windows have segmental heads and keystones set in plain raised frames with moulded cornices, while the ground-floor windows are in moulded frames with moulded cornices. The entrance door is framed with a moulded design and has a dentilled cornice supported by scrolled brackets, featuring two moulded panels. Additionally, there are cast iron railings surrounding the area, topped with spear finials.

Local climate

Freemasons Hall 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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