Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot
Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot, Skinner Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135425
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot
- Statutory Address:
- Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot, Skinner Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135425
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot, Skinner Lane
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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:
- Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot, Skinner Lane
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 45644 22181
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 4522 SE
5/58
PONTEFRACT
SKINNER LANE (west side)
Gateway and lodges for Old Military Depot
13.7.87
II
Gateway and lodges. c 1859. Ashlar sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Two storeys; central gateway flanked by projecting turrets, with attached lodges, all canted around corner site. Central gateway has leaved studded doors, each of ten panes, set within tall segmental-pointed-arched opening which has stop-chamfered jambs and moulded arris to voussoired arch. Above, pointed-arched Lombard frieze supports crenellated parapet. Turrets have double-chamfered plinths, and are battered, with a slit on each floor and an inserted small window between the slits to the left tower;.triple-corbelled machicolations to crenellated parapets; ground-floor slits on inner returns.
Outer ranges have, to left, a square window and a slit on each floor; to right a rock-faced plinth, a ground-floor two-light mullion window and three first-floor slits; both have triple-corbelled machiciolations to crenellated parapets. Hipped roofs over lodges, with corbelled corniced stacks at outer ends. Rear: plain arch, but jambs stop-chamfered; ground-floor windows formerly of three lights, two-light first-floor windows. Parapets as at front. Northern lodge is of L-shaped plan, with first-floor two-light window above roof of wrapped-round outbuildings. Access to lodges from doorways inside archway. The gateway formed the entrance to the Military Depot of the Pontefract Corps of the West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. It was disused at the time of the re-survey. The brick ranges outside the lodges are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SE4564422181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342697
- 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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