The Priest's House is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1952. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.
The Priest's House
- WRENN ID
- empty-mullion-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priest's House, Heath Common, Warmfield Cum Heath, WF1 5SN
- OS grid reference
- SE 353 201
- Coordinates
- 53.67621, -1.46602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest's House is a house from the mid to late 17th century that was altered in the mid-20th century. It features rendered stonework and a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a two-cell central-entry plan with a double-depth layout and a two-span roof. A continuous dripmould rises over the doorway, which has a Tudor-arched lintel with sunk spandrels and a chamfered surround. There are former two-light windows to the left and three-light windows to the right on each floor. The gables are coped with kneelers.
At the rear, the house has quoins and a central doorway with a monolithic lintel. The original fenestration includes a small oval window, which is blocked, to the right of the door; a single double-chamfered light above the door; a three-light double-chamfered mullion window to the left; and a two-light window to the right. The right-hand return features an external stack on each gable.
Local climate
The Priest's House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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