Entrance Archway to Childrens Playground is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1967. Archway.
Entrance Archway to Childrens Playground
- WRENN ID
- rusted-solder-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1967
- Type
- Archway
- Address
- Entrance Archway to Childrens Playground, Holme, Holme Valley, Kirklees
- OS grid reference
- SE 107 059
- Coordinates
- 53.55004, -1.83864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance archway to the children's playground, dated 1686, features a rebuilt doorway that now serves as the entrance. It is constructed with millstone grit quoins and has a large triangular Tudor arched lintel, which is inscribed with "IA GB 01686." The archway has recent struck pointing.
Local climate
Entrance Archway to Childrens Playground sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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