Wharf House
WHARF HOUSE, BOLTON BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134549
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf House
- Statutory Address:
- WHARF HOUSE, BOLTON BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134549
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHARF HOUSE, BOLTON BROW
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:
- WHARF HOUSE, BOLTON BROW
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 06414 23749
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE BOLTON BROW SE 0623-0723 (south side) 13/9 Wharf House 15.11.66 GV II Porter's lodge, now house. 1837. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. T-shaped plan. 1 storey, 1 bay with 2-storey gabled cross-wing 2 bays deep on left breaking forward slightly and projecting to rear. West front: C20 door in chamfered surround formerly with window on right (removed and opening blocked). Wing has canted bay window with single chamfered light to each face, cornice, blocking course and coping; above this a chamfered 3-light mullioned window (mullions removed) and in gable an arrow-slit-type recess. Truncated stack to right end, external stack to left. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping, gable finial to wing. Rear: rear bay of wing lower and narrower with chamfered window surround in gable; finial to gable of front bay of wing. Main range has 2-light window (mullion removed) with iron bars. Right return, wing: a chamfered doorway and window (mullion removed). The barred rear window dates from when the building was used as a Police Station and the room it lit was a cell. The building was let to the West Riding Constabulary 1863-94. Sowerby Bridge, Chamber of Trade and Commerce official Tourist Guide, p24.
Listing NGR: SE0641423749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985), 24
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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