Transhelf House is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Transhelf House
- WRENN ID
- patient-porch-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Transhelf House, Tanshelf House, 40, Front Street, WF8 1NW
- OS grid reference
- SE 451 219
- Coordinates
- 53.69222, -1.31702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Transhelf House is a house that likely dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring painted stone and gauged brick dressings, and has a graduated slate roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical facade of three bays.
The central bay includes a full-height elliptical-arched recess with a gauged brick arch. There is a stone plinth with three steps leading up to a five-panel door, which is topped by a traceried fanlight set in a moulded semi-circular headed architrave. This architrave has imposts and panelled reveals, along with a pilastered surround that includes reeded consoles, dosserets, a frieze, and a cornice.
On either side of the central bay are tripartite bow windows that have brick plinths, stone sills, and moulded cornices. The front windows are 12-pane sashes, while the side windows are eight-pane sashes, with pilasters between and at the corners. The first floor features an ashlar band and three 12-pane sashes, all with stone wedge lintels that are incised with voussoirs. The central window is slightly shorter and has a panelled stone apron below, while the side windows have stone sills. The building has a timber eaves board and stone coped gables with brick end stacks, as well as the remains of a central ridge stack. There are semi-circular headed attic windows in the gable returns.
An attached single-storey shop to the left is not of special interest.
Local climate
Transhelf House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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