Blocks Along Factory Lane and Canal at Union Mills and Tower Betweent the Two Blocks is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.

Blocks Along Factory Lane and Canal at Union Mills and Tower Betweent the Two Blocks

WRENN ID
vast-ember-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Industrial
Address
Blocks Along Factory Lane and Canal at Union Mills and Tower Betweent the Two Blocks, HD3 4NJ
OS grid reference
SE 120 158
Coordinates
53.63892, -1.81977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The buildings along Factory Lane and the canal at Union Mills, including a tower situated between the two blocks, date from the mid-19th century. They are constructed from hammer-dressed stone and feature pitched slate roofs with coped gables on kneelers. The structure consists of five storeys, with stone brackets supporting the gutters. The block along Factory Lane has 19 ranges of windows, while the block along the canal has 14 ranges of segment-headed windows with glazing bars and two ranges of planked loading doors. The ground floor windows are round-arched and have rock-faced voussoirs. The building has a double gable end with oculi. There is a three-storey engine house extension to the west, which includes an iron water tank on the roof and one round-arched window that is two storeys high, also featuring rock-faced voussoirs and jambs. The tower, located at the angle between the two blocks, has a pyramidal slate roof, a bracketed eaves cornice, and one oculus on each side, along with three round-arched windows on each side that have plain raised imposts and keystones.

Local climate

Blocks Along Factory Lane and Canal at Union Mills and Tower Betweent the Two Blocks 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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