40-48, Wakefield Road is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. House.
40-48, Wakefield Road
- WRENN ID
- strange-string-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SE 149 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64408, -1.77469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 to 48 on Wakefield Road are early 19th-century buildings constructed from hammer-dressed stone, with No 40 being rendered. They feature a pitched stone slate roof and stand two storeys tall. The buildings have a moulded eaves cornice and a blocking course, with a continuous sill on the first floor. There are six sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. The ground floor of Nos 42 to 48 has a moulded cornice. No 42 includes a door with an oblong fanlight and glazing bars, while there is a passage entrance with a semi-circular fanlight and moulded imposts. No 48 has a contemporary shopfront supported by four Tuscan pilasters.
Local climate
40-48, Wakefield Road 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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