Methodist Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. School.
Methodist Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- dark-tin-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Methodist Sunday School, Hick Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 246 240
- Coordinates
- 53.71213, -1.62822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Sunday School, built around 1870, is a two-storey building constructed of dressed stone featuring rusticated ashlar quoins and ashlar dressings. It has a hipped slate roof with moulded brackets at the eaves cornice. The building has a six-bay hall and a five-bay facade, with the three central bays forming a group that includes a central entrance flanked by lights. The ground floor openings have heavy segmental arched heads and a continuous impost band. The first-floor windows are arranged in two tiers, separated by ashlar panels, and have pilaster surrounds topped with Corinthian capitals. The upper tier windows are round arched and feature rusticated voussoirs. The left elevation displays heavy segmental headed windows on the ground floor and round arched windows with a sill and impost band on the first floor. To the right, there is recent brick infill.
Local climate
Methodist Sunday School receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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