Oakwood
OAKWOOD, 2, HUNGERFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134154
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood
- Statutory Address:
- OAKWOOD, 2, HUNGERFORD ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03912/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134154
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKWOOD, 2, HUNGERFORD ROAD
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:
- OAKWOOD, 2, HUNGERFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 12766 17758
Details
HUNGERFORD ROAD 1. 5113 (West Side) Edgerton No 2 (Oakwood) SE 1217 27/669 II 2. Mid C19. Hammer dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Bracketed eaves cornice. Strings. 4 ranges of round-arched sashes, paired on 1st floor, with foliage capitalled colonnettes, moulded voussoirs and keystones. Ground floor windows have moulded surrounds and raised frames with dentilled and modillioned cornices, foliage panels and spandrels. 2 left-hand bays break forward. Porch in re-entrant angle, with 9 pink granite columns on raised bases connected by openwork balustrade, moulded voussoirs and elaborately carved keystones dentilled and modillioned cornice, open balustrade with carved piers and moulded cornice. 4 steps up with quadrant-shaped retaining walls carrying gadrooned and sculpted urns. Door with 4 moulded panels, semi-circular fanlight, moulded surround with colonnettes with foliage capitals. North front similar: 3 ranges with canted ground floor bay at right hand: panelled plinth, piers with foliage capitals, entablature and parapet as porch. Interior. Full height top-lit hall with bracketed cornice, some plaster decoration, patterned floor of very brightly coloured tiles and staircase with elaborate newels and bulbous balusters with foliage stems. One room with particularly fine plaster ceiling.
Listing NGR: SE1276617758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339992
- 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.
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