St Peter's Parish Centre Including the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Parish centre. 7 related planning applications.
St Peter's Parish Centre Including the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-transept-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Parish centre
- Address
- St Peter's Parish Centre Including the Cottage, New Street, WF12 8JJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 256 212
- Coordinates
- 53.68744, -1.6128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Peter's Parish Centre, which includes The Cottage, is a former Church of England School that was converted into a parish centre and dates back to 1845. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof, which is tiled on the left side. The roof has gable copings on moulded kneelers and spear finials at the apexes.
The structure consists of a two-storey cottage and a single-storey main building. The cottage has three bays with 2-light windows and a central door that has a Tudor arched head, all of which are adorned with hood moulds. To the left, there is a later single-storey addition that matches the original design. The cottage projects in front of the main building, which is a long range that ends in a projecting wing on the right side.
The main building features square-headed windows that are mullioned and transomed, with most having six lights, while some have eight lights. There are three lancet windows on the right gable. The near elevation has ten mullioned and transomed windows, all with hood moulds, and two near central doorways with Tudor heads and 2-light fanlights. A plaque at the front of the building reads "CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS ERECTED AD 1845."
Inside the parish centre, there are pews from the old Church of St. Peter, designed by Thomas Taylor. Although most ceilings have been lowered, broad queen-post trusses are still visible. The original three-tier wooden and glass panelled partitioning between classrooms remains intact.
Local climate
St Peter's Parish Centre Including the Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 2022
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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