147, Town Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Dwelling, barn.
147, Town Gate
- WRENN ID
- burning-porch-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- Dwelling, barn
- Address
- 147, Town Gate, Holme Valley
- OS grid reference
- SE 139 096
- Coordinates
- 53.58317, -1.79131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 147 on Town Gate is a dwelling that may have originally been a barn, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with quoins and features a pitched stone slate roof. The building has three storeys.
On the north-east gable, there is a ground floor entrance with a deep lintel, while the first and second floors each have a 6-light stone mullioned window, although two mullions have been removed from the first floor window. The north-west elevation includes a through passage with a segmental arch and a later or enlarged window that has a central mullion.
On the south-east elevation, above the segmental archway, there is a 2-light stone mullioned window on both the first and second floors, with the first floor window having a mullion removed. Additionally, there is a lean-to extension on the south-east side that features an entrance, a 2-light window on the ground floor, and a 3-light window on the first floor.
Local climate
147, Town Gate 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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