The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tangled-granite-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Almshouses, 5 and 6, Wilshaw Road, Meltham, HD9 4DZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 115 097
- Coordinates
- 53.58392, -1.82748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, located on Wilshaw Road, were built in 1871 by John Kirk of Huddersfield for Eleanor Hirst of Wilshaw in memory of her daughter Mary. This pair of almshouses is constructed from hammer dressed stone and features a pitched slate roof with gable copings, barge boards, and a tall stone stack at each gable. The building has two storeys and includes a central single-storey stone porch with a hipped slate roof (which has been replaced) and two open round arched entrances. On the ground floor, to the left and right of the porch, there are 2-light windows with round arched lights and sashes, each with a hood mould. The first floor has a single round arched sash window that extends above the eaves level, designed as a dormer with a hipped slate roof. Lean-to extensions of similar age are present at each gable.
Local climate
The Almshouses 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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