Exchange Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Commercial building.
Exchange Buildings
- WRENN ID
- old-wicket-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Exchange Buildings, Market Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 166
- Coordinates
- 53.64578, -1.78418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Exchange Buildings, dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a hipped slate roof. The building has three storeys and an attic. The north side displays four ranges of sash windows, followed by a gabled section topped with a ball finial. This section includes one range of loading doors, which are now glazed, flanked by one 19th-century sash window on each side. At the south end, there is a two-light stone mullioned window situated above a trabeated archway, which is adorned with ornamental cast iron gates.
Local climate
Exchange Buildings 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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