Austin House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Austin House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-newel-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Austin House, 160, Westgate, WF2 9SR
- OS grid reference
- SE 326 206
- Coordinates
- 53.68088, -1.50701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austin House is an imposing late 18th century house located on the north side of Westgate. It features three storeys and an attic, with a total of nine windows. The five-bay centre of the building projects under a pediment. The eaves and pediment cornices are decorated with dentils and modillions, and there is a plain round window in the pediment. The house is constructed of red brick and has a hipped roof covered with modern tiles. The sash windows have gauged flat brick arches with fluted triple keystones and stone cills, with the windows on the second floor being shorter. The centre windows are set in a two-storey round-arched recess, with the first-floor window being a Venetian style that uses an enriched Ionic order. On the ground floor to the left, there is a modern door accessed by four replaced steps, framed by a doorcase with engaged fluted columns, an enriched entablature, and a pediment. The remainder of the ground floor has been converted into a modern showroom, and there is a carriage arch on the right side of the building.
Local climate
Austin 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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