Main Block of Royds Hall School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. A Mid C19 School. 11 related planning applications.
Main Block of Royds Hall School
- WRENN ID
- young-vestry-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Main Block of Royds Hall School, Luck Lane, HD3 4HA
- OS grid reference
- SE 121 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64463, -1.81726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main block of Royds Hall School is a mid-19th century former villa constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features a moulded eaves cornice supported by stone consoles. There is a decorative band and a continuous sill on the first floor. The building has horizontally rusticated angle pilasters and rusticated quoins on the chimney breast.
On the first floor, there are five segment-headed sash windows set in plain raised frames. The ground floor features oblong sash windows with plain raised frames and panelled aprons; two of these windows are paired and separated by columns topped with Corinthian capitals. The entrance porch is accessed by five steps and is adorned with Composite pilasters at the corners, which support a full entablature and a pierced balustrade. The sides of the porch have arcades with three small semi-circular arches, featuring moulded voussoirs on pink granite colonnettes with Composite capitals. Above the porch is a round-arched window with carved imposts, moulded voussoirs, and ornamental cresting, and this bay is topped with an individual steep-pitched pyramidal roof. The doors are elaborately moulded.
Other elevations of the building are partly obscured by a modern school structure, but the visible parts maintain the same architectural quality.
Local climate
Main Block of Royds Hall School 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- 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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