HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL

HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BRAMLEY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300472
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BRAMLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300472
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BRAMLEY LANE

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:: HIPPERHOLME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BRAMLEY LANE

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:: SE 12422 25804

Details

BRIGHOUSE BRAMLEY LANE SE 12 NW Hipperholme 1/16 Hipperholme Grammar School (formerly listed under 3. 1. 67 Hipperholme) II

School. C1783 by Longbottom (a local architect). Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof to central single storey block which is symmetrical with central projecting gabled portion which has quoins, recess for inscription tablet which records the founders in Latin with cornice on consoles, clock face and gable surmounted by bell turret, added in 1835. To either side are 3 bays of tall sash windows. Hipped roof with stone ridge tiles. Later extensions to either side c.1906 are gabled of 2 storeys in Vernacular Revival style with stepped lights with hoodmoulds and other double chamfered mullioned windows, with coped gables with kneelers and finials. Endowed by Matthew Broadley in 1648 and Samuel Sunderland in 1671 and rebuilt in 1783. In 1880 it was reconstituted as a first-grade Public School when a large Boarding House for the Headmaster with accommodation for pupils was built. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse 1978), p.ll. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1967), p.632.

Listing NGR: SE1242225804

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Legacy System number:: 338777
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Sources

Books and journals
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 11
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 632

Legal

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