Princess Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Cinema.
Princess Cinema
- WRENN ID
- empty-nave-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- Princess Cinema, Northumberland Street, HD1 1DT
- OS grid reference
- SE 144 169
- Coordinates
- 53.64885, -1.78227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Princess Cinema is a mid-19th century building that opened as a Picture House in 1923. It was designed by Captain Clifford Hickson of Stott, Sykes and Hickson from Huddersfield and is built in a style similar to its neighboring buildings at Nos 1 and 3. The structure features ashlar stonework and has a hipped slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and includes an entablature, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a parapet. There are continuous moulded sill bands and canted corners with rusticated quoins.
The building has three ranges of windows with glazing bars; the second-floor windows have moulded frames, while the first-floor windows also have moulded frames and dentilled cornices, with the central first-floor window topped by a triangular pediment. The ground floor features a glazed Tuscan colonnade and three doors that exhibit horizontal rustication, Doric friezes, round-arched heads, and moulded imposts. The door located at the corner of Byram Street includes a blind fanlight with a sculpted altar in relief. This decorative treatment continues for two bays on both the Byram and Wood Street elevations.
Local climate
Princess Cinema 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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