Low House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1965. House. 3 related planning applications.
Low House
- WRENN ID
- second-wicket-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low House, Penistone Road, Denby Dale, HD8 8XU
- OS grid reference
- SE 211 073
- Coordinates
- 53.56277, -1.68162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low House is a large house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The house is constructed of coursed rubble with quoins, and has a stone slate roof with gable copings on cut kneelers. Two ashlar stacks are present. The house is two storeys high, with a basement to the lower end due to the sloping ground.
The garden front features large, square, two-storey bays added in the 19th century at each end. It has two bays of sash windows, one of which has been replaced by a 19th-century doorway with a cornice supported on console brackets. A blocked, partially obscured moulded doorway is visible to the left. An entrance from the road, at first-floor level, has a chamfered, quoined surround within a 19th-century stone slab porch. A four-light basement window is situated to the right, and a blocked doorway with a chamfered surround to the left.
The east gable features a basement six-light window with leaded glazing on the right, and a three-light double chamfered window to the two upper floors with leaded diamond glazing. A later round-arched window is located in the attic. A large single light is present on the upper floors to the left, one of which is blocked.
Local climate
Low House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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