Sundial at Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Sundial. 1 related planning application.
Sundial at Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-tracery-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- Sundial
- Address
- Sundial at Friends Meeting House, Pell Lane, Holme Valley
- OS grid reference
- SE 153 090
- Coordinates
- 53.578, -1.77008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sundial at the Friends Meeting House is a stone structure dating from 1802, set on a stone pedestal. The square sundial features inscriptions on all four faces and on the top, although these inscriptions are badly weathered. There are no gnomons present, and the sundial is attached to the pedestal with staples.
Local climate
Sundial at Friends Meeting House 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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