22-34, John William Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. A C19 Commercial.

22-34, John William Street

WRENN ID
frozen-terrace-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
SE 144 168
Coordinates
53.6478, -1.78231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 22 to 34 on John William Street is a mid-19th century building made of ashlar sandstone. It stands three storeys high with attics and features a modillioned eaves cornice. The parapet is adorned with regularly spaced pedimented piers. There are continuous sill bands on the first and second floors, with the first floor's band being moulded. The building has rusticated quoins and chamfered corners.

The ground floor facing John William Street consists mainly of modern shopfronts, except for the pilastraded bank front of No 22, which may be original. On the ground floor facing St Peter's Street, there are six round-arched sash windows with moulded voussoirs, keys, and a continuous moulded impost band. There are also double doors with eight diamond panels and a fanlight in a round arch, featuring moulded imposts and keystones, flanked by Tuscan pilasters that support a full entablature.

The first and second floors contain 13 ranges of sash windows on John William Street, eight on St Peter's Street, nine on Church Street, and one on each corner facing John William Street. All windows have moulded surrounds and sills supported by brackets. The windows on John William Street feature shouldered surrounds, and those on the first floor also have entablatures, with the sill brackets being console-shaped. Additionally, there is a decorative area on the St Peter's Street side, which includes very ornate cast iron railings.

Local climate

22-34, John William Street 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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