166, Westgate is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. House.

166, Westgate

WRENN ID
still-pavement-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1979
Type
House
OS grid reference
SE 326 205
Coordinates
53.68079, -1.50741
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

166 Westgate is an early to mid-16th century building that stands two storeys high and features two windows. It has a steeply pitched, swept slate roof with ridge and end stacks. The exterior is made of painted brick, and the building has 19th-century sash windows set under segmental arches. There is a later 19th-century shop front, and an entrance to a yard is located on the left side.

Local climate

166, Westgate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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