Former Board Room for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1971. Office. 2 related planning applications.
Former Board Room for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company
- WRENN ID
- steep-steel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1971
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Former Board Room for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company, Navigation Yard, Kirkgate
- OS grid reference
- SE 338 202
- Coordinates
- 53.67753, -1.48897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Board Room for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company is an early 19th-century classical building. It is a one-storey structure made of ashlar and features a hipped slate roof. The building has five bays, with two sash windows that include glazing bars on either side of the entrance. The entrance is framed by Tuscan columns in antis and topped with a pediment. The left side of the building is now obscured by a projecting modern concrete addition.
Local climate
Former Board Room for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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