FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE

FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391421
Date first listed:: 24-May-2005
List Entry Name:: FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391421
Date first listed:: 24-May-2005
List Entry Name:: FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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:: FORMER STABLES AND ARCHED WALL ATTACHING IT TO THE OLD COACH HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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 13753 25040, SE 13758 25063

Details

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679/0/10309 WAKEFIELD ROAD 24-MAY-05 Lightcliffe Former stables and arched wall attachi ng it to the old coach house

II Stable range with linking walls. c.1775. Probably built soon after the rebuilding of Cliffe House which it serves.Brick with some ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. PLAN: STABLE range facing ontop courtyard, and connected by a SCREEN WALL WITH ARCH, with north end of yard being closed by FLANKING WALLS with broad gateway. EXTERIOR: FRONT (east) ELEVATION: Two storey, hipped slate roof, with central doorway wirh small flanking windows contained within arched, bar-entrance like surround. To either side pairs of round-headed windows flank plain doors. To first floor three small semi-circular lights to centre, flanked to either side by round-headed loading doors, and with further small semi-circular light to each end.Wooden window frames and doors probably C19 replacements. END (north) ELEVATION:small square window to first floor. INTERIOR: Ground floor with intact loose boxes with wrought iron colums and with central staircase to first floor. First floor divided into three rooms with exposed roof trusses. SCREEN WALL:Lower part of brick, rising in centre to form double-height arched opening. This linked to corner eaves of coachhouse and stable range to either side by plain ashlar pediments supported on either side of the arch by two tapering, square-sectioned stone columns. FLANKING WALLS: of brick, c.2.5m high, dropping in quarter-round shape to meet stone gateposts defining a broad entrance. SECONDARY YARD: beyond the entrance defined by the flanking walls is a second, slip-like yard, closed at its west end by a single-storey brick building extending northward from the stables. Freestanding outbuildings are mapped at, and just beyond, the east end of the yard (no details available) HISTORY: Cliffe Hill, the adjoining mansion, is believed to have been built in 1775. The stables and coach house complex are of similar date, and are more than purely functional: they were intended to impress, as were the modest, park-like grounds in which the house was set, and were designed in a fashionable Neo-classical manner with a particularly unusual screen wall. The stable range and attached enclosure walls form a group with the former coach house, now dwelling (q.v.) which faces the stable across the courtyard.

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Legacy System number:: 493398
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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