Balks House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House, flats, nursery.

Balks House

WRENN ID
haunted-render-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1976
Type
House, flats, nursery
Address
Balks House, Walkers Lane
OS grid reference
SE 271 320
Coordinates
53.78381, -1.58997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Balks House is a late 18th-century house that has been converted into flats and a nursery. It features a red brick exterior and a stone slate roof. The front has a low-pitched gable that is designed to look like a pediment, which includes a circular window in the tympanum and decorative sham timber-framing. The building is two storeys high and five windows wide, with sash windows that do not have glazing bars, plain lintels, and a sill band at the first floor. The central doorway is framed by Tuscan three-quarter columns that support a pediment, and it has a semicircular fanlight with glazing bars above a panelled door. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Balks House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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