The Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. House.
The Wood
- WRENN ID
- turning-rood-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wood, Grimescar Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 123 193
- Coordinates
- 53.67021, -1.81508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wood is a mid-19th century building located on Grimescar Road in Fixby. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a pitched stone slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and has a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. There is a band running along the façade, which includes three ranges of sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance door is framed with moulded ashlar and has an oblong fanlight above it, topped with a segmental pediment. At the rear, there is a staircase window that also has glazing bars.
Local climate
The Wood 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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