Local fact sheet
Halifax's homes, by the numbers
Calderdale in the 2021 census: 90,476 households, 85% houses, 15% flats.
Calderdale is built on hillsides, and Halifax's terraces are built into them: better than two households in five are terraced, at Park, Ovenden, Illingworth and Mixenden, Queensbury and out along Luddendenfoot. On a steep street the lower storey of a house is frequently set into the slope, with earth against the back wall rather than air.
Halifax is a dramatic Victorian Pennine mill town built in local millstone grit, crowned by the restored Piece Hall. Housing ranges from tightly packed stone terraces in King Cross and Illingworth to grand Savile Park villas and rugged Calder Valley character homes with heavy stone floors and thick walls.
In a room set into the slope, the floor sits below the ground outside it and moisture arrives sideways through the wall as well as upwards. Tanking, drainage or a ventilated cavity are the building's answers; the floor's part is to tolerate whatever remains after them.
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