Badger Hey and Badger Hey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. A Georgian Terrace. 2 related planning applications.
Badger Hey and Badger Hey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-step-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Terrace
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Badger Hey and Badger Hey Cottage, Meltham Road, HD7 5TZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 064 122
- Coordinates
- 53.60666, -1.90427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Badger Hey and Badger Hey Cottage is a small terrace building dating from 1759, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with quoins, and the north elevation is partly rendered. The roof is pitched and covered with stone slate, which has recently been turned. The building has two storeys.
For Badger Hey Cottage, the south elevation features a ground floor entrance with quoins and a deep lintel, which is partly blocked. There is one four-light stone mullioned window that is chamfered and recessed, along with one three-light and one two-light stone mullioned window, both also chamfered and recessed. The east gable has a modern lean-to extension. The north elevation includes various modern casements, some of which are in original openings.
For Badger Hey, the south elevation has a ground floor entrance with quoins and an initial and date on the deep lintel: E S 17 59. There is one four-light stone mullioned window that is recessed and one three-light stone mullioned window that is also recessed. On the first floor, there are three two-light stone mullioned windows, with some rebuilding evident. To the west, there is a former barn that has been largely rebuilt and now features modern garage openings, along with two two-light windows. The north elevation has various modern casements, some in original openings.
Local climate
Badger Hey and Badger Hey Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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