Number 30 (Shepley Hall) & Number 32

NUMBER 30 (SHEPLEY HALL) & NUMBER 32, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135346
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1965
List Entry Name:
Number 30 (Shepley Hall) & Number 32
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 30 (SHEPLEY HALL) & NUMBER 32, STATION ROAD
Shepley Manor
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135346
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1965
Date of most recent amendment:
16-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Number 30 (Shepley Hall) & Number 32
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 30 (SHEPLEY HALL) & NUMBER 32, STATION 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 30 (SHEPLEY HALL) & NUMBER 32, STATION ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Kirkburton
National Grid Reference:
SE1937009881

Details

SE 10 NE
8/103
23rd June 1965

STATION ROAD
Shepley
No. 30 (Shepley Hall) & No. 32
(Formerly listed as No 20-30 (Range of Cottages next to Shepley Old Hall))

II
GV

House, now divided. Dated 1608 but with C19 and recent alterations.
Thinly coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof. Two storeys.
Hollow chamfered gable copings on cut kneelers to porch. Double pile
plan with 2-gabled front with near-central projecting 2-storey porch
which has wide entrance with deep, arched lintel with raised letters:
"ANNO DOMINI 1608 RH EH" and also possible builders' marks. 1st floor
of porch has 8-light mullioned and transomed, double chamfered window.
The right gable has one 2-light window to ground floor and one 3-light
window to 1st floor, both double chamfered and with hood mould. Altered
windows to its right side. The left part (No. 32) has been rendered.
Windows to its left side appear to be C19. The gable has a C19 or C20
projecting stack which partly obscures a former 4-light window and a
3-light window. Attached to the rear of No. 30 is a range of formerly
3 early C19 cottages, now part of No. 30, altered to the front, but with
3-light windows to rear at 1st floor level and entrance and one 4-light
window to ground floor. Right hand end has been altered.

Interior: No. 32 has good original plaster frieze of affronted mermaids.
The ceiling is divided by a partition but has mouldings with circles
with central motif and squares with Tudor rose. Also fleur-de-lys and
date 1609. The centre part has gone.

The house was built on the site of an earlier house by Robert Hepworth.

H. J. Morehouse, The History of Kirkburton & the Graveship of Holme, 1861.

Listing NGR: SE1937009881

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
341218
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Moorhouse, H J, The History of Kirkburton and the Graveship of Holme, (1861)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Number 30 (Shepley Hall) & Number 32

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