Upper Newgate and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Barn, cottage.
Upper Newgate and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- scarred-bastion-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Barn, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SE 049 147
- Coordinates
- 53.62882, -1.92613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Newgate is a late 18th-century cottage with an adjoining barn, constructed from hammer-dressed stone and featuring quoins on the east side. The building has a pitched stone slate roof and stands two storeys tall. On the south elevation, the ground floor includes a six-light stone mullioned window, while the first floor has a three-light stone mullioned window and a two-light stone mullioned window, although one mullion has been removed from the latter. On the north elevation, the first floor features another two-light stone mullioned window with one mullion removed. The barn's north elevation has a small entrance with stone surrounds and tie-stones, along with later openings positioned at a high level.
Local climate
Upper Newgate and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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