1 to 9 (odd) John William Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Retail and offices. 5 related planning applications.

1 to 9 (odd) John William Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Retail and offices
Address
1 to 9 (odd) John William Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1BR
OS grid reference
SE 144 167
Coordinates
53.64713, -1.78276
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

1 to 9 John William Street is a three-storey retail and office building constructed in 1852 by William Wallen. It was later occupied by Rushworth’s, the town’s leading department store, and is now used for commercial and hospitality purposes. The building features a sandstone ashlar frontage and a slate roof, occupying a prominent corner location with elevations on both John William Street and Westgate.

The exterior has a rounded corner and is characterized by horizontally rusticated quoin strips. The John William Street elevation consists of six bays, with modern shopfronts on the ground floor. The first-floor windows are one-over-one sashes with aprons, moulded and shouldered surrounds, and full entablatures. The second-floor windows also feature one-over-one sashes, with moulded surrounds and cornices, and plain aprons resting on the entablatures below. Above these is a deeply projecting modillion eaves cornice and a plain parapet. The corner bay has a single bay of windows arranged in a tripartite style, similar to those on the John William Street elevation.

The Westgate elevation mirrors the style of the John William Street elevation, but the two left bays are spaced more generously, and the second and third bays are separated by a horizontal rusticated pilaster.

Local climate

1 to 9 (odd) John William Street 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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