Imperial Court is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Former hotel, shop. 1 related planning application.
Imperial Court
- WRENN ID
- narrow-jamb-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former hotel, shop
- Address
- Imperial Court, 1-4, Imperial Arcade, HD1 2BR
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 165
- Coordinates
- 53.64543, -1.78437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Imperial Court is an early 19th-century building that was originally the front elevation of the Queen Hotel on Market Street. The structure is built of ashlar and features a hipped stone slate roof. It stands three storeys high and has stone brackets supporting the gutter. There are ten ranges of sash windows, with the six northernmost on the first floor featuring a continuous balcony adorned with an ornamental cast iron balustrade. A modern panelled door is set in the original opening.
The building includes a trabeated archway leading to the Queen Tap Yard, which has stone setts beneath it. There is also a segment-headed archway with plain impost blocks leading to the Imperial Arcade, where cast iron gates ramp upwards towards the centre. The front facing the Imperial Arcade was originally the rear of the building and has eight ranges of sash windows on the first and second floors, along with modern shop fronts.
Local climate
Imperial Court 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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