Birkby Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Birkby Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-threshold-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Birkby Baptist Church, Wheathouse Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 138 181
- Coordinates
- 53.65928, -1.79223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birkby Baptist Church, built around 1900, is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a low-pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves. The church has a hall plan and is supported by broad tapering buttresses. It includes flat-topped dormers with wooden tracery and an undercroft. There is a transept and a south-west porch with a hipped roof. A low crenellated tower is located at the north-west angle, adorned with gargoyles, a pyramidal roof, and a tall wooden finial. On the north side, there is a two-storey minister's house with canted bays and crenellated parapets. The entrance door is set in a moulded arch with gable arcs. The window tracery reflects early 16th-century styles, with some art nouveau flourishes visible in the east and west windows.
Local climate
Birkby Baptist Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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