56, Upper Wellhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. House.
56, Upper Wellhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-chimney-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SE 094 151
- Coordinates
- 53.63307, -1.85857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Upper Wellhouse is an early 18th-century building, dating from around 1720 according to deeds. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with quoins and features a pronounced plinth. The roof is pitched and covered with stone slate, and there is a coped gable on the north side. The building has two storeys.
On the east elevation, the ground floor includes a partially blocked entrance with a large millstone grit lintel, stone surrounds, and tie-stones. There is one three-light stone mullioned window and one five-light stone mullioned window; both are double chamfered with tie-stones under the lintels and have millstone grit surrounds. The first floor features three recessed and chamfered three-light stone mullioned windows. The west elevation has various altered windows.
Local climate
56, Upper Wellhouse 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
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