Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with Walls and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 2003. Industrial.
Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with Walls and Gates
- WRENN ID
- tilted-string-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 2003
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with Walls and Gates, Alder Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 147 179
- Coordinates
- 53.65789, -1.7787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with Walls and Gates, built in 1900, was constructed by the London & North Western Railway for the Huddersfield Corporation Tramways. This structure features forty coal chutes or drops made of timber, iron, and blue engineering brick with ashlar dressings.
A rubble stone boundary wall surrounds the area and includes two broad gateways, each flanked by two square gate-piers that are topped with pyramidal ashlar caps. Curved rubble stone retaining walls on either side rise to the height of the chutes, with single tall square stone piers at each corner.
The forty coal chutes are each separated by solid blue brick piers that have ashlar banding. The timber structure and top decking support iron chutes, which are operated by visible cogs and gearing.
Local climate
Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with Walls and Gates 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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