37-41, ROPERGATE
37-41, ROPERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135419
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37-41, ROPERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 37-41, ROPERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135419
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37-41, ROPERGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37-41, ROPERGATE
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:
- 37-41, ROPERGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45455 21724
Details
PONTEFRACT ROPERGATE SE 4521 NW (south-east side) 7/51 Nos 37-41 (odd)
GV II
3 houses, now 2 shops with offices above. Late C18 with mid C19 alterations. Painted brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Ground floor: central segmental archway with ashlar voussoirs and fluted keystone; mid-C19 shop fronts, with plate-glass windows, inverted pilasters with capitals of small volutes, deep friezes, and lead-topped cornices, in 1st and 4th bays; 4-pane sash windows in 2nd bay; blocked doorway with wedge lintel in 5th bay. First floor: central tripartite window, with 4-pane -sash flanked by 2-pane sashes, all under lintel with keyed round arch interrupting wedge lintel, giving Venetian window effect. Second floor: half-size 4-pane sashes. Windows have projecting ashlar sills and voussoired wedge lintels. Shaped kneelers (that to right broken), ashlar coping. Brick stacks at ends and flanking central bay. Rear: C20 rendering and other alterations. On left return of carriageway is an ashlar plaque with early-cl9 lettering 'Smyth Street'. The housing in the street bore a plaque commemorating Pontefract's MP, John Smyth, who was MP 1783-1806, and an advocate of Reform.
Listing NGR: SE4545521724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342690
- 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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