Britannia Mills Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Chimney. 2 related planning applications.

Britannia Mills Chimney

WRENN ID
knotted-glass-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1985
Type
Chimney
Address
Britannia Mills Chimney, Britannia Road, HD7 5HG
OS grid reference
SE 080 138
Coordinates
53.62147, -1.88034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Britannia Mills Chimney is a mid-19th century mill chimney located on Britannia Road in Slaithwaite. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and stands approximately 100 feet tall. The chimney has an eight-sided shape, reinforced with steel at the angles and featuring steel tie-bars at roughly 5-foot intervals. At the top, there is a brick parapet, which may be a later addition, supported by a large ashlar cornice. This cornice is held up by 24 moulded brackets, three on each side, resting on an ashlar string course. Below the string course, there are six slender niches with slightly pronounced ashlar semi-circular arched heads, and beneath these niches is another ashlar string course.

Local climate

Britannia Mills Chimney 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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