11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street
11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2EA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134461
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street
- Statutory Address:
- 11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2EA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134461
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2EA
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:
- 11, 13 and 15, Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2EA
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 05936 23579
History
Although the style of the frontage appears to be late C19 this appears to be a refronting of an earlier building depicted on Local Board plans dated 1866 which shows the western shop (11 Town Hall Street) labelled as the post office. By the 1888 Ordnance Survey Town Plan the post office had moved to other premises. In 1920 the London Joint City and Midland Bank applied for permission to convert 13 and 15 into a bank with the construction of a strong room in the basement, the 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map surveyed 1931 marking the building as ‘Bk’.
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 11 June 2024 to amend details in the description, add Historical Note and Sources
SE 0423 and SE 0523
12/282
SOWERBY BRIDGE
TOWN HALL STREET (north side)
Nos 11, 13 and 15
(Formerly listed as Nos 11 (Doreens ), No 13 (Lyns) and No 15 (Village Gossip)
GV
II
Row of three shops, built by 1866, but frontage appearing late C19.
Built of stone ashlar with a slate roof, with a three-storey, three-bay frontage. The ground floor of the building has rusticated quoins, the bays being divided by panelled pilasters. Extending above all these are giant Classical strip pilasters which extend to support an eves band and dentilled cornice forming an entablature with a blocking course above. The first-floor windows are tripartite with narrower, round arched sidelights. The lights are fitted with sashes. They are divided and flanked by pilasters with consoles supporting cornices. These cornices support pediments above the central lights, that to the middle window being segmental, the flanking windows having triangular pediments. The second-floor windows are each of two lights set within an architrave with shield-and-foliage-decorated keystones, the window cills being supported on consoles. The front roof slope retains two chimney stacks that are corniced and set at an angle.
Listing NGR: SE0593623579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire Historic Area Assessment (2024) Historic England Research Report 23/2024, p102
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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