Masonic Hall and Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall to Area is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Public hall. 1 related planning application.

Masonic Hall and Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall to Area

WRENN ID
spare-jamb-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1984
Type
Public hall
Address
Masonic Hall and Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall to Area, Market Street, WF16 0JU
OS grid reference
SE 216 232
Coordinates
53.70546, -1.67358
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Masonic Hall, opened in 1851, is constructed of dressed stone and features a hipped slate roof with a moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. The building has two storeys and a basement, with a string course running along its façade. The front of the hall is symmetrical with three bays, where the central bay projects forward and is topped with a pediment that displays a carved Masonic symbol of a set square and compass in the tympanum. The ground floor features rusticated quoins and simple pilasters flanking the central bay on the first floor. The doorway includes a semicircular fanlight, simple pilaster surrounds, and a full entablature. The ground floor windows are adorned with rounded hipped architraves, while the first floor windows are round arched with shouldered architraves, all fitted with glazing bars. The basement openings are plain.

Access to the hall is via a flight of stone steps, which are flanked by walls that each support an ornamental iron lamp standard. Surrounding the property is a low boundary wall topped with iron railings and gates.

Local climate

Masonic Hall and Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall to Area receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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