Top of the Town Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Row of cottages. 4 related planning applications.
Top of the Town Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lone-plinth-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South MP: Hilary Benn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Top of the Town Cottages, 220-228, Town Street, LS10 3SH
- OS grid reference
- SE 297 283
- Coordinates
- 53.75057, -1.54988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of cottages dating to the mid-18th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The cottages are constructed of red brick, with stone slate roofs to numbers 222-228 and a slate roof to number 220. They have two storeys and seven first-floor windows, with a rear outshut. Quoins are visible on the left side. The cottages feature plain doors, segmental arches over the ground-floor openings, and four-pane sash windows. The left-hand three-window range resembles a mid-18th century house, with end stacks, now divided into two cottages, with additional bays added to the east. Each additional bay has a stack positioned to the right. The interior has not been inspected. Number 228 was reputedly used as a Methodist meeting house until around 1860. Number 220 currently serves as the office for the Leeds City Council Countryside Ranger Service.
Local climate
Top of the Town Cottages receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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