NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ROPERGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135422
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ROPERGATE

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Date:: 2003-02-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135422
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ROPERGATE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 49 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 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 45414 21684

Details

PONTEFRACT ROPERGATE SE 4521 NW (south-east side) 7/54 No 49 and attached 29.7.50 railings (formerly listed as 'No 49') GV II

House with attached railings, now offices. Late C18/early C19 with later alterations. Painted brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Iron railings. Two storeys on basement (3 storeys at rear), 3 bays with central hallway plan. Ashlar plinth. Four stone steps to central doorcase with original iron boot-scrapers to either side of top step. Deeply-recessed double-leaf raised and fielded 6-panel door below radial traceried overlight in doorcase with moulded architrave and moulded cornice on fluted consoles. To either side there are dwarf stone walls to front with original railings which have plain bars and standards with bulb bases and spear-head finials. Basement has blocked opening to right. Ground floor has plate-glass sash windows, one to right and 2 to left. Second floor has symmetrical arrangement of 3 sashes with glazing bars, plus small inserted 4-pane sash to far right. All windows have flat stone arches with incised voussoirs and projecting sills. Moulded hopper head to bracketed downpipe to far right. Bracketed stone cornice. Concrete coping to left gable. Brick end stacks halfway down front pitch of roof.

Listing NGR: SE4541421684

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Legacy System number:: 342693
Legacy System:: LBS

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