521, Bradford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Former school.
521, Bradford Road
- WRENN ID
- odd-pewter-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Former school
- OS grid reference
- SE 237 248
- Coordinates
- 53.71952, -1.64199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 521 on Bradford Road is a former National School, now serving as a joiner's shop and funeral directors. It was built in 1848 and features hammer dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The roof has gable copings supported by long carved kneelers topped with square pyramidal finials. Each gable has paired octagonal ashlar stacks. The building is single storey with a basement, and stone steps lead up to a central porch. This porch has a tall double doorway with a low Tudor arch, decorated with carved spandrels and a hood mould. Above the entrance, there is a plaque inscribed with "1848 NATIONAL SCHOOL."
On either side of the entrance, there are tall 4-light stone mullioned windows with round arched lights and hood moulds above. To the left at basement level, there is a shouldered arched entrance and a 3-light window. A recent addition is located to the right. The rear elevation features 4-light windows on both the left and right, with a central 3-light window, all detailed similarly. At the basement level, there are three altered 3-light windows.
Local climate
521, Bradford Road receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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