Thorpe Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Thorpe Villa
- WRENN ID
- lost-attic-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Thorpe Villa, Northgate, HD5 8RX
- OS grid reference
- SE 167 152
- Coordinates
- 53.63369, -1.74772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpe Villa is an early to mid 19th-century building located on Northgate in Almondbury. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped stone slate roof. The villa has two storeys and is adorned with a moulded eaves cornice and a blocking course. There is a continuous sill band at the first floor level, which is complemented by five ranges of sash windows that include glazing bars. The central first-floor window has a moulded surround. At the front, there is a tetrastyle Tuscan portico with a segmental pediment above the central intercolumniation. Additionally, there is a round-arched staircase window at the rear, also with glazing bars.
Local climate
Thorpe Villa receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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