8 and 10, Railway Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1977. Terraced houses.
8 and 10, Railway Street
- WRENN ID
- pitched-nave-juniper
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1977
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 8 and 10, Railway Street, HD1 1JF
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 167
- Coordinates
- 53.64743, -1.7845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 8 and 10 Railway Street are mid-19th century buildings that form a single composition with Nos 12-20 St George's Square. The structure is built of ashlar and features a hipped slate roof, rising to four storeys and a basement. It has a deeply moulded modillion eaves cornice and continuous moulded sill bands on the second and third floors, along with a main band above the ground floor. The ground floor windows are round-arched and adorned with vermiculated keystones, while the ground floor itself is horizontally rusticated. The building has a moulded plinth and vermiculated and rusticated quoins, with a total of twelve ranges of sash windows.
The first floor windows have moulded surrounds, gadrooned keystones, frames with pulvinated friezes, triangular pediments, and balustrades on consoles featuring vase-shaped balusters. Above the pediments, two triglyph-like consoles connect to the cills of the second-floor windows, which also have moulded surrounds and cornices. The third-floor windows are separated by sunk and moulded panels, have plain pilasters, and brackets supporting the cornices. The areas are enclosed with cast iron railings that have baluster finials. The elevation facing St George's Street is a simplified version of the main facade, featuring twelve window ranges, one of which is blind.
Local climate
8 and 10, Railway 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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