Briars Cottage, Top of the Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. House.
Briars Cottage, Top of the Hill
- WRENN ID
- floating-copper-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Briars Cottage, Top of the Hill, Thurstonland Bank Road, Kirkburton, HD4 6XZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 162 105
- Coordinates
- 53.59091, -1.75636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briars Cottage, located at the Top of the Hill on Thurstonland Bank Road, is a building that dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century. Originally two houses that were handed, it is constructed from hammer dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has two central doors, with one of them currently blocked. On the ground floor, there is a three-light stone mullioned window to the left and a two-light stone mullioned window to the right. Each dwelling on the first floor has one four-light stone mullioned window. The rear elevation is rendered, and there is a single-storey extension to the south that lacks architectural interest.
Local climate
Briars Cottage, Top of the Hill 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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