Braehead is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. House.

Braehead

WRENN ID
tattered-chancel-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Braehead, Church Lane
OS grid reference
SE 047 161
Coordinates
53.64162, -1.92942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Braehead is an early 19th-century building constructed from hammer-dressed stone, featuring a pitched stone slate roof and two ridge stacks. It stands two storeys tall. The southeast elevation includes two doorways with stone surrounds on the ground floor, along with a two-light stone mullioned window and a three-light stone mullioned window. On the first floor, there is a four-light stone mullioned window, a two-light stone mullioned window, and another three-light stone mullioned window. The northwest elevation has two two-light stone mullioned windows and one coal-hole opening. The southwest gable contains a small opening.

Local climate

Braehead 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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