Centre Block and Tower at Acre Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Warehouse, tower. 5 related planning applications.

Centre Block and Tower at Acre Mills

WRENN ID
graven-rubble-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Warehouse, tower
Address
Centre Block and Tower at Acre Mills, Acre Street, HD3 3EB
OS grid reference
SE 120 176
Coordinates
53.65546, -1.81955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The centre block and tower at Acre Mills, located on Acre Street in Lindley, date from the early 19th century, with the tower being added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables. It stands four storeys tall with attics and has a total of 13 ranges of windows, including four at the ends. The central five ranges are topped with a pediment-shaped gable that includes a Venetian window in the attic. The tower is adorned with a string course and a moulded cornice supported by console-shaped brackets, and it features a crenellated parapet. The front of the tower has round-arched windows, and there is an oculus at attic level.

Local climate

Centre Block and Tower at Acre Mills 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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