Wesley House
WESLEY HOUSE, 9, BROWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133401
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley House
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY HOUSE, 9, BROWGATE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/00805/09
- Rights:
- © Mr David Leighton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133401
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY HOUSE, 9, BROWGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY HOUSE, 9, BROWGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Baildon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 15467 39638
Details
SE1539NW BAILDON BROWGATE (west side)
10/5 Nos9 (Wesley House) 15.12.75 11 and 13
GV II
Former Wesleyan Methodist preaching house now restaurant (No 9), attached to 2 cottages now workshop and office. No 9 and No 11 dated 1755, No 13 early C19. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Forms a U-shaped block with No 13 to left. This has 2 bays. Doorway with tie-stone jambs in 2nd bay. All windows have plain stone surrounds, 4-paned sashes to 1st floor, former shop window to ground floor. Stack to left gable. Set back No 11 has 3 bays. 1st bay has doorway with monolithic jambs, 3rd bay has segmental-arched doorway with voussoirs and skew-backs, bears date and initials " JB ". Set between bays is window with plain stone surrounds. Above, three 16-paned sashes. Stack to rear of this range. No 9 breaks forward, gable fronted. Quoins. Ground floor has side shop window and doorway with wooden surrounds of indeterminate date. 1st floor has tall semicircular- arched window with voussoirs and skew-backs. Coped gable with kneelers. Stack to rear of this range. Attached to left is small 1½ storeyed gabled outshut possibly containing staircase originally.
Interior: 3-bay roof with 2 king-post trusses with deep cambered tie-beans, single angle struts and stop-chamfered curved braces to the ridge.
John Wesley is said to have preached from the 1st-floor window on his last visit to Baildon on Saturday, July 22nd, 1786 (La Page,p83) J. La Page, The Story of Baildon, 1951.
Listing NGR: SE1546739638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
La Page, J, The Story of Baildon, (1951), 83
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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