8, Ainley Place is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Terrace house.
8, Ainley Place
- WRENN ID
- tilted-mortar-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Terrace house
- OS grid reference
- SE 064 147
- Coordinates
- 53.6294, -1.90457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Ainley Place is a 17th-century building that forms part of a terrace. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a pitched stone slate roof. The building has moulded footstones and stands two storeys tall, with the ground floor at the back set into the earth.
On the southeast elevation, the ground floor entrance is framed by millstone grit quoins and a large millstone grit lintel with a Tudor arch. There is also a four-light stone mullioned window with double chamfers. The first floor has a two-light stone mullioned window with double chamfers, alongside a three-light stone mullioned window with double chamfers and two adjoining lights, which are later additions.
The northwest elevation includes a light well at the ground floor.
Local climate
8, Ainley Place 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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