51, Station Road is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Office, warehouse. 4 related planning applications.
51, Station Road
- WRENN ID
- steep-mortar-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Office, warehouse
- Address
- 51, Station Road, WF17 5SU
- OS grid reference
- SE 249 238
- Coordinates
- 53.71015, -1.62406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 51 Station Road is a former office and warehouse building dating from around 1880. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with a basement and has a moulded string course between the first and second floors. It occupies a corner site with a seven-bay rounded facade, including a single gabled bay on the left that projects forward. This gabled bay has an open round-arched porch supported by red granite columns, which have intricately carved capitals depicting foliage and sheep's heads. The cornice above is richly carved with foliage, and the keystone features a carved bust.
The first floor has a paired window, while the second floor showcases a triple group of windows, all with pilaster surrounds and mullions topped with foliated capitals and round-arched heads. Above these windows is an elaborately carved frieze and cornice, and the gable pediment displays a shield held by two seated figures, topped by a squatting dog.
To the right, the six bays feature round-arched windows on the ground floor with nook shafted jambs and carved voussoirs. Each large keystone in this section is adorned with a carved animal or bird, including a monkey, owl, eagle, and macaw. The first floor windows are square-headed with a decorated frieze at the impost level, while the second floor has a continuous range of square-headed lights with an impost band. A decorative cornice is present above, leading to a perforated parapet.
Additionally, there is a round angle turret on the right side, extending to the first and second floors, with windows styled similarly to the gabled bay on the left. The turret features a conical roof with a richly carved underside, and a round-arched window below has a keystone carved with a bat. The right return elevation consists of three bays with a simpler design.
Local climate
51, Station Road 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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