Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Front and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Gate, railings.
Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Front and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-step-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Gate, railings
- Address
- Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Front and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church, School Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 087 165
- Coordinates
- 53.64511, -1.86875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, gatepiers, and railings at the front of Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church were constructed around 1899. They feature two large, square gatepiers made of ashlar stone, each topped with moulded caps. The entrance is adorned with iron gates and iron railings that sit on low walls made of hammer-dressed stone.
Local climate
Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Front and Scapegoat Hill Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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