Wards End is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Farmhouse.
Wards End
- WRENN ID
- spare-rafter-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wards End, Blake Lee Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 026 130
- Coordinates
- 53.61395, -1.96096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wards End is an early to mid 18th century farmhouse constructed from coursed millstone grit stone, featuring quoins and a stone slate roof with moulded footstones. The east elevation has a modern brick chimney. The building is two storeys high.
On the south elevation, the ground floor has a concrete-faced plinth and includes one five-light stone mullioned window with all mullions removed, and one four-light stone mullioned window with two mullions removed. The first floor has two four-light stone mullioned windows, each with two mullions removed.
The east elevation features a blocked doorway and a blocked two-light stone mullioned window. The north elevation has an outshut extension at the eastern end with a catslide roof, and it includes one two-light stone mullioned window with a removed mullion. On the west elevation, the first floor has one recessed two-light stone mullioned window with a removed mullion.
Local climate
Wards End sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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