Somervill is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Residential. 1 related planning application.
Somervill
- WRENN ID
- deep-moulding-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Somervill, 4, Hungerford Road, HD3 3DD
- OS grid reference
- SE 127 177
- Coordinates
- 53.65594, -1.809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerville is a mid-19th century building located on Hungerford Road. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and is characterized by a bracketed eaves cornice and a moulded string course.
The façade consists of three ranges of sash windows, with the left range slightly projecting and topped by a gable that has moulded coping and a finial. On the ground floor, there is a canted bay with round-arched casements; the central casement has two arches with an intervening pendant. This bay is supported by clustered fluted colonnettes at the piers, and it features a moulded cornice and an openwork parapet with applied cylindrical piers and a moulded cornice.
The first floor includes a Venetian window with a moulded surround and sculpted cresting. The central range has a door with four moulded panels and a semi-circular fanlight in a moulded surround. The porch is supported by four columns and features a semi-circular arch with a mask in full relief on the keystone, along with elaborate foliage sculpture in the spandrels and a semi-circular pediment with further foliage sculpture in the tympanum.
The steps leading to the porch have quadrant retaining walls and gadrooned urns. The first floor also has a round-arched window in a moulded frame, with tracery made up of two intersecting semi-circles and a pendant boss at the junction. The right-hand range features a Venetian casement in a cable moulded surround with sculpted cresting, along with a first-floor sash window in a moulded surround. The north side of the building is similar, with one canted bay like that on the east front.
Local climate
Somervill 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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