Wall and Railings to Birkby Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Boundary wall.

Wall and Railings to Birkby Baptist Church

WRENN ID
distant-pier-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Wall and Railings to Birkby Baptist Church, Wheathouse Road
OS grid reference
SE 138 181
Coordinates
53.6594, -1.79246
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall and railings to Birkby Baptist Church, built around 1900, feature a dwarf wall with simple, regularly spaced piers topped with ashlar caps. The cast iron railings include some with Arts and Crafts finials.

Local climate

Wall and Railings to Birkby Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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