38 and 40, Portland Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Commercial buildings.
38 and 40, Portland Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial buildings
- OS grid reference
- SE 139 169
- Coordinates
- 53.6493, -1.7903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 38 and 40 on Portland Street are mid-19th century buildings constructed of ashlar stone with a pitched slate roof. They stand two storeys tall and feature a moulded eaves cornice. The facade includes four ranges of sash windows and two doors that are adorned with Tuscan pilasters, a full entablature, and a blocking course.
Local climate
38 and 40, Portland Street 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
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- 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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