Methodist Free Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Church.
Methodist Free Church
- WRENN ID
- broken-stronghold-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Free Church, Robert Lane, Holme Valley
- OS grid reference
- SE 153 092
- Coordinates
- 53.57926, -1.76968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Free Church, dated 1868, is built from hammer dressed stone and features a stone slate roof with gable copings. It has a small square cupola on the ridge and moulded stone brackets. The building is two storeys high, with a three-bay gable front and four-bay sides. The central door is topped with a deep fanlight and a moulded cornice. The windows consist of two round arched lights with a simple foil above, all set in arched wood frames. A tablet at the apex of the gable reads: "METHODIST FREE CHURCH 1868." There is a dwarf stone wall returning to the chapel, with cast iron railings featuring spear and fleur-de-lys heads, and similar gates with ashlar piers.
Local climate
Methodist Free Church 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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