Number 49 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. House.

Number 49 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
haunted-cloister-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1950
Type
House
Address
Number 49 and Attached Railings, Ropergate
OS grid reference
SE 454 216
Coordinates
53.68966, -1.31379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 49 is a house with attached railings, now used as offices. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and has undergone later alterations. The building is constructed of painted brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof. The iron railings are also notable.

The house is two storeys high, with a basement and three bays, following a central hallway plan. It has an ashlar plinth and four stone steps leading to a central doorcase. The doorcase features an original iron boot-scraper on either side of the top step. The entrance includes a deeply-recessed double-leaf raised and fielded six-panel door, which is topped by a radial traceried overlight, all framed by a moulded architrave and a moulded cornice supported by fluted consoles.

On either side of the entrance, there are dwarf stone walls with original railings that have plain bars and standards with bulb bases and spear-head finials. The basement has a blocked opening on the right side. The ground floor includes plate-glass sash windows, with one on the right and two on the left. The second floor has a symmetrical arrangement of three sashes with glazing bars, along with a small inserted four-pane sash on the far right. All windows are topped with flat stone arches featuring incised voussoirs and projecting sills. There is a moulded hopper head connected to a bracketed downpipe on the far right, and a bracketed stone cornice above. The left gable has concrete coping, and there are brick end stacks located halfway down the front pitch of the roof.

Local climate

Number 49 and Attached Railings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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