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

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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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