CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE

CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, TOWN GATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266053
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:: CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, TOWN GATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266053
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:: CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, TOWN GATE

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:: CALVERLEY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, TOWN GATE

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 21404 37114

Details

SE23NW LS28 TOWN GATE SE2137 PUDSEY (east side, off), Calverley 2/163 Calverley House Farmhouse 25.1.78 II

House, now in 2 occupations. c1800 for Thomas Thornhill of Fixby Park, Huddersfield (q.v.), Lord of the Manor of Calverley. Finely dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-bay symmetrical facade. lst-floor sill-band, eaves cornice. Ground-floor bays have elliptical-arched recesses, central bay having round-arched doorway with fanlight, imposts and side-lights; outer bays having windows with projecting sills. lst- floor windows similar with rectangular sunk panels above. All have casements. Hipped roof with stack to left pitch and 2 stacks to right pitch. Rear fenestrated as front. Left-hand return of 3 bays, 1st 2 bays forming a segmental, full-height bow with semi-conical roof. 3rd bay has inserted French-window set in elliptical-arched recess. The house was never used by Thomas Thornhill but let to substantial tenants throughout the C19. One of these was Ellis Cunliffe-Lister, MP, whose son, Samuel, later 1st Lord Masham and owner of the largest wool-combing business in the world (at Manningham Mills, Bradford) was born here.

Listing NGR: SE2140437114

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Legacy System number:: 423117
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.