12-20, St Georges Square is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1977. A Victorian Commercial. 14 related planning applications.
12-20, St Georges Square
- WRENN ID
- dusk-fireplace-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1977
- Type
- Commercial
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 167
- Coordinates
- 53.64744, -1.7848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A mid-19th century building located on St George's Square, forming a single composition with numbers 8 and 10 Railway Street. The building is constructed of ashlar and has a hipped slate roof. It comprises four storeys and a basement, with a deeply moulded eaves cornice featuring modillions. Continuous moulded sill bands are present on the second and third floors, with a plain band above the ground floor. A continuous moulded impost band sits below the ground floor windows, with the ground floor itself being horizontally rusticated. Moulded plinth and vermiculated quoins are also present. There are twelve window ranges. The ground floor windows are round-arched, featuring vermiculated keystones. The first floor windows have moulded surrounds, gadrooned keystones, frames with pulvinated friezes and triangular pediments, and balustrades on consoles with vase-shaped balusters. Above the pediments, two triglyph-like consoles link them to the sills of the second-floor windows, which themselves have moulded surrounds and cornices. The third-floor windows are separated by sunk and moulded panels and have plain pilasters with brackets supporting the cornices. Cast iron railings with baluster finials are located on the areas. The St George’s Street elevation is a simplified version of the St George’s Square facade, containing twelve window ranges, one of which is blind.
Local climate
12-20, St Georges Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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