Boiler House and Chimney to Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Boiler house.
Boiler House and Chimney to Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- guardian-stair-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Boiler house
- Address
- Boiler House and Chimney to Church of St Mary, Wilshaw Road, Meltham
- OS grid reference
- SE 115 097
- Coordinates
- 53.58437, -1.8269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boiler house and chimney for the Church of St. Mary, built around 1863, feature hammer dressed stone and a pitched slate roof with gable copings, carved kneelers, and moulded stone brackets. On the north side, there are three round arch doorways. The square chimney consists of two tiers; the lower tier has ashlar offsets and sunk panels on each face, while the upper tier includes archivolted round arched sunk panels on each face and a broad moulded cap with a round arched corbel table. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Boiler House and Chimney to Church of St Mary 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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