Crown Court House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1971. Court house. 1 related planning application.
Crown Court House
- WRENN ID
- late-steel-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1971
- Type
- Court house
- Address
- Crown Court House, Wood Street, WF1 2EL
- OS grid reference
- SE 330 209
- Coordinates
- 53.68422, -1.50178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crown Court House, built in 1810, is a notable example of Neo-Greek architecture, with extensions added in 1849-50. The building is two storeys high and constructed from sandstone ashlar, featuring banded rustication on all walls. It has a tetrastyle design, with a Doric pedimented portico that includes eight side steps leading to the stylobate. The central door is flanked by sash windows that have glazing bars. The building also has plain parapets on its one-storey side wings. To the left, a set-back two-storey section contains three pairs of windows, along with an entablature and a blocking course that continues with the return of the main block.
Local climate
Crown Court 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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