Block alongside Firth Street at Commercial Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Industrial building. 2 related planning applications.
Block alongside Firth Street at Commercial Mills
- WRENN ID
- sacred-balcony-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial building
- OS grid reference
- SE 146 159
- Coordinates
- 53.64027, -1.77938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The block alongside Firth Street at Commercial Mills was built in 1864 and is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a pitched slate roof and coped gables. It stands three storeys tall and features stone brackets supporting the gutter. The road-facing side has thirty-eight ranges of industrial windows with glazing bars. In the center, there is a tower that rises two storeys higher, flanked by four ranges of windows on Commercial Street, which include two oculi in the gable ends. The ground floor windows are round-arched, adorned with vermiculated voussoirs and a continuous moulded impost band. The tower has a hipped roof with a moulded and bracketed cornice. The entrance is round-arched with hollow chamfered surrounds, and the jambs and voussoirs are alternately vermiculated and made of ashlar, featuring spur stones. Above the ground floor, there is a frieze and moulded cornice topped with a pediment-shaped blocking course that is inscribed with "Commercial Mills" and "1864". The first floor has two segment-headed sash windows set within a segment-headed panel with rusticated voussoirs, with every alternate window being vermiculated.
Local climate
Block alongside Firth Street at Commercial Mills 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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