Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1971. Merchant's house. 12 related planning applications.

Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School

WRENN ID
western-cloister-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1971
Type
Merchant's house
Address
Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School, Wentworth Street, WF1 2QS
OS grid reference
SE 328 212
Coordinates
53.68683, -1.5036
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School is a substantial merchant's house built between 1802 and 1805. It stands three storeys tall with a blank basement and features seven windows. The three central bays project slightly, and the building is constructed of red brick with a stone basement, a cill band at the first floor, and a modillion eaves cornice. The windows, which have gauged flat brick arches and stone cills, are mainly sash windows, though there are one or two modern casements. A wide flight of five stone steps leads to the entrance door, which has a plain fanlight set within an architrave with impost blocks. This entrance is framed by a prostyle Roman Doric porch with a segmental pediment. The house was built for John Pemberton Heywood, a barrister and the son of a local cloth merchant.

Local climate

Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School 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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