Parkwood Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Parkwood Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- broken-wattle-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Parkwood Methodist Church, Parkwood Road, HD3 4TT
- OS grid reference
- SE 102 169
- Coordinates
- 53.64861, -1.84572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parkwood Methodist Church is a chapel built in 1868, as indicated by the datestone. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a pitched-grey slate roof with a hip to the north. The building has stone brackets and a coped gable, standing two storeys tall.
The south elevation, which is the front of the church, has buttresses on either side with moulded heads. At the gable apex, there is an arched ashlar band inscribed with "UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH AD 1868." This elevation includes two slender semi-circular arched windows with stained glass and hood mouldings above them. The central doorway features a semi-circular fanlight within an ashlar surround, which consists of two square pilasters and a full entablature. The entire doorway is topped with an overarch and is accessed by a flight of stone steps.
On the east elevation, the ground floor has rectangular casement windows, while the first floor features six slender windows with semi-circular heads, some with drip mouldings and one with stained glass. The west elevation mirrors the east.
Local climate
Parkwood Methodist Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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