The Wedge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. House.
The Wedge
- WRENN ID
- scattered-corner-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wedge, 4, Imperial Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 131 175
- Coordinates
- 53.65423, -1.80214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wedge is a mid-19th century building located on Imperial Road in Edgerton. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a pitched slate roof with coped gables. The building has two storeys and includes a moulded eaves cornice and a blocking course. There are six ranges of sash windows, with a canted bay containing sash windows at the north end and an oblong bay with tripartite sashes at the south end. The building also has four doors with fielded panelling, fanlights that include glazing bars, and is adorned with Tuscan pilasters, full entablatures, and blocking courses.
Local climate
The Wedge 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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