CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS

CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246203
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246203
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: CO'S HOUSE AT 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CO'S HOUSE AT 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:: SE0704925289

Details

SE 02 NE 679/4/10288 23-JAN-01

HALIFAX GIBBET STREET (North,off) CO's House at Wellesley Barracks

GV II

Also Known As: Office at Wellesley Park, GIBBET STREET

Commanding Officer's House, now office. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with raised and coped gables with kneelers. 2 tall external chimney stacks. Quoins and plinth. 2 storey. Main west front has central doorway with glazed panel door and wooden hood with segmental leaded top supported on wooden brackets. Above is a single window. Gabled wing to right projects slightly. Either side are pairs of plain sashes with segment heads, and above pairs of similar sashes. 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: SE0704925289

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 487427
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.