Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks

Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246202
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks
Statutory Address:: Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246202
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks
Statutory Address 1:: Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street

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:: Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks, Gibbet Street

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE0704525250

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 June 2021 to reformat the text to current standards.

SE 02 NE 679/4/10287

GIBBET STREET (north,off) Officers mess to former Wellesley Barracks

23-JAN-01

GV II Also Known As: Office at Wellesley Park, GIBBET STREET

Officers' mess, now offices. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with five ridge stacks and a single gable stack, raised coped gables with kneelers. Chamfered plinth and quoins. Two storey. Main east facade has very irregular fenestration and Gothic Revival style detailing. Projecting off-centre porch with pointed arches supported on bold circular columns with foliate capitals and a hipped slate roof. Inner doorway has chamfered surround and C20 door. Above are two small sash windows. To left a slightly projecting gable with two large cross mullion windows on the ground floor and three sashes under a single pointed relieving arch above, beyond a single storey projecting wing with canted bay front with cross mullion windows. To right single sash, then a pair of sashes on both floors, beyond a slightly projecting gable with three sashes below and two sashes above. Another pair of sashes then a single sash on both floors with slightly projecting gable end with three sashes below and three tall narrow sashes above under a Gothic relieving arch. Small gabled porch projects from right return with moulded doorway under segment head. This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellington's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, known as the 'Dukes'.

Listing NGR: SE0704525250

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487426
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.