32-40, Station Road is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1982. Warehouses. 1 related planning application.
32-40, Station Road
- WRENN ID
- burning-ashlar-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1982
- Type
- Warehouses
- Address
- 32-40, Station Road, WF17 5SU
- OS grid reference
- SE 248 237
- Coordinates
- 53.70972, -1.62432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of warehouses built around 1870 in an Italian Gothic style. They are constructed from ashlar stone, with hipped slate roofs. The buildings comprise Nos. 32, 34, 36, 38, and 40 Station Road. No. 40 has 10 bays, with 6 of those bays curving around a corner, while No. 32 has 3 bays. Only a doorway remains at No. 34.
The facades are distinguished by massive piers with nook shafts, heavy foliated capitals, and a consoled cornice with blocking courses and dies above the piers. The ground floor windows have arched heads, while the first and second floors have round arched heads, all with gothic hood moulds and alternately coloured voussoirs. Large sculpted roundels are present on piers and within the ground floor window tympana, depicting a squirrel, flowers, and foliage. Between the second-floor windows are angled shafts terminating in grotesque beasts. The doorways have panelled doors, a flat lintel, and lobed relieving arches.
A row of 11 squat piers across the front of the buildings feature segmental pedimented heads, with some original gothic ironwork remaining. During a survey, the roof of No. 40 was missing.
Local climate
32-40, Station Road receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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