MOORCROFT FARM

MOORCROFT FARM, 1-5, LEYMOOR ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234962
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: MOORCROFT FARM
Statutory Address:: MOORCROFT FARM, 1-5, LEYMOOR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234962
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: MOORCROFT FARM
Statutory Address 1:: MOORCROFT FARM, 1-5, LEYMOOR ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MOORCROFT FARM, 1-5, LEYMOOR ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE1000816326

Details

SE 11 NW LEYMOOR ROAD Golcar 3/235 Nos 1 to 5 (consec) - (Moorcroft Farm)

- II

Late C18. Group of 5 dwellings. Hammer dressed stone (part rendered). Quoins. Pitched stone slate roof. Gable copings on long carved footstones. Paired stone brackets. 2 storeys. Nos. 3, 4 & 5: East elevation: Ground floor; Three entrances with stone surrounds (2 with tie-stones). Two 5-light stone mullioned windows (casements to one window have rounded heads). One 3-light stone mullioned window. First floor; One 16-light stone mullioned window (4 lights blocked to form three 4-light windows). One 6-light stone mullioned window. No.2 (at 90° to Nos. 3, 4 & 5): Ground floor; Entrance with stone surround and tie-stones (blocked). One 2-light stone mullioned window. First floor; One 3-light stone mullioned window. East gable: Loading door with stone surrounds and tie-stones at first floor level. West gable: Lean-to extension with curved wall with entrance with stone surround. No.1: West elevation: Ground floor; Entrance with stone surround and 2 single side lights (later). Entrance with stone surround (altered). Large modern window. First floor; Three 3-light stone mullioned windows (each with 1 mullion removed).

Listing NGR: SE1000816326

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Legacy System number:: 411059
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.