76 AND 78, HANDEL STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. A C19 Terraced house. 1 related planning application.
76 AND 78, HANDEL STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- knotted-railing-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- SE 098 156
- Coordinates
- 53.63763, -1.85241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A mid-19th century pair of terraced weavers’ houses, located at 76 and 78 Handel Street, Golcar, and including No 21 Rock Fold. The houses are constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a pitched stone slate roof and stone brackets, featuring a coped gable on the west side. The south elevation has three to one storeys. The ground floor features two two-light stone mullioned windows with pronounced sills and two doorways. The first and second floors each have two six-light stone mullioned windows; one window has two of its lights blocked. A sill bank runs along the first and second floors.
Local climate
76 AND 78, HANDEL STREET (See details for further address information) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2010
- 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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