NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES

NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES, CLAYPIT LANE LS25

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264070
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES, CLAYPIT LANE LS25

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264070
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES, CLAYPIT LANE LS25

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-11 SIR JOHN LEWIS'S COTTAGES, CLAYPIT LANE LS25

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Ledsham
National Grid Reference:: SE4565729819

Details

SE 42 NE 8/20 3rd February 1967

LEDSHAM LS25 CLAYPIT LANE (north side, off) Sir John Lewis's Cottages Nos 1-11 (formerly listed as "St. John's Hospital")

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Row of eleven almshouses. Founded mid C17 by Sir John Lewis; altered and restored, with C20 addition. Magnesian limestone blocks, stone slate roof. Linear single-depth plan, with modern rear outshut. Two storeys, 1 bay each; plinth, string course; doorways coupled except the first at the left end, all with chamfered surrounds and panelled doors; each cottage has one 2-light chamfered mullion window on each floor, all at ground floor slightly recessed and all above flush (and all restored). Rebuilt stone chimneys: one at each gable and 5 on the ridge. Gables have stone coping with kneelers, but the masonry below shows the line of a formerly more steeply-pitched roof. Rear now of less interest. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE4565729819

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Legacy System number:: 428660
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.