Huddersfield Narrow Canal Tunnel End Cottages at SE 039 119 is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1995. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Tunnel End Cottages at SE 039 119
- WRENN ID
- tattered-cellar-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1995
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Tunnel End Cottages at SE 039 119, HD7 6NQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 039 119
- Coordinates
- 53.60397, -1.94159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tunnel End Cottages are a pair of semi-detached former Tunnel Keeper's cottages, now serving as a visitor's centre. They were built in the early 19th century and have undergone some alterations in the late 20th century. The cottages are two stories high and consist of four bays. They are constructed from coursed rustic stone and feature a grey slate pitched roof with a slate ridge and two stone chimney stacks.
Each cottage has a single doorway on the ground floor, with a sash window to the left. The upper storey contains four sash windows that alternate between wide and narrow. All openings are fitted with stone sills and lintels. The east gable end includes a single recessed mullioned attic light and a second storey mullioned sash window.
There are also late 20th-century adjoining sheds made of coursed rustic stone on either side of the cottages, with two on the west side and one on the east, replacing similar outbuildings that were previously on the site. The cottages are included for their group value with the listed Standedge Tunnel portals and the Tunnel End Reservoir aqueduct.
Local climate
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Tunnel End Cottages at SE 039 119 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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