162, Westgate is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
162, Westgate
- WRENN ID
- quiet-arch-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 162, Westgate, WF2 9SR
- OS grid reference
- SE 326 205
- Coordinates
- 53.68083, -1.5072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 162 Westgate is a building from the early to mid-18th century. It has two storeys and features a stuccoed front with two windows. The high-pitched slated roof has a gable end, with a possibly older rear wing visible above the ridge. There is a chimney at the right end of the building. The ground floor has a stone cill band, and the first floor has stone cills beneath the sash windows, which have glazing bars and are paired on the left side. The ground floor also includes a small mid-19th century shop window on the left and a modern casement window on the right. The building has a core that dates back to the 16th century.
Local climate
162, Westgate 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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