60 and 62, Westgate is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1977. Commercial building. 12 related planning applications.
60 and 62, Westgate
- WRENN ID
- eastward-cellar-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1977
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- SE 330 207
- Coordinates
- 53.68248, -1.50088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 60 and 62 Westgate are early to mid-19th century buildings that stand three stories tall and feature two and three windows. They are constructed of painted brick and have a moulded stone eaves cornice along with a slated roof. The sash windows, which include glazing bars, are adorned with gauged near-flat brick arches and stone cills. The ground floor has been altered with modern shops. To the left, there is a finely gauged elliptical arch over Thompson's Yard. No 60, along with Nos 2 and 4 Thompson's Yard, is particularly notable as the birthplace of the novelist George Gissing.
Local climate
60 and 62, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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