Nelson House Including Steps and Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House, school.

Nelson House Including Steps and Railings to Front

WRENN ID
vast-cloister-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
House, school
Address
Nelson House Including Steps and Railings to Front, 29, Fulneck
OS grid reference
SE 222 320
Coordinates
53.78419, -1.66369
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nelson House, located at No. 29 on the north side of Fulneck, is a late 18th-century building that now partly serves as a girl's school with flats above. The house features a mid-19th century bay window and is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has three bays. The building is characterized by quoins and a plinth.

The central doorway, framed by monolithic jambs, is accessed via a double flight of six stone steps, which are accompanied by cast-iron rod railings topped with decorative wrought-iron hoops that are braced to the wall. Above the entrance, there is a single-light window on each floor. The flanking bays contain two-light flat-faced mullioned windows on both floors. The ground floor of the third bay has been altered to include a flat-roofed canted bay window with a sill band. The first-floor windows of the outer bays are adorned with wrought-iron window boxes. The attic windows, which are set under the eaves, are shorter and blind. The building features paired gutter brackets and has coped gables with end stacks, along with mid-20th century roof dormers.

Historically, this house was the residence of Charles Sebastian Nelson, an architect from Leeds, who played the organ at Fulneck Chapel. It is part of the Moravian settlement of Fulneck.

Local climate

Nelson House Including Steps and Railings to Front receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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