17 Corn Market
17, Corn Market
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135452
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 17 Corn Market
- Statutory Address:
- 17, Corn Market
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135452
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 17 Corn Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, Corn Market
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:
- 17, Corn Market
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 45412 21922
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SK 4521 NW
7/20
PONTEFRACT
CORN MARKET (south-west side)
No 17
(Formerly listed as 'Premises occupied by Woodhouse')
5.11.88
GV
II
House, now shop. Mid C18 with early and late C19 additions and C20 alterations. Rendered brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Two storeys and five bays, central entrance and through-passage to left-hand bay. Plinth. Left-hand passage entrance to Jackson Court has rusticated semicircular headed archway with radiating voussoirs set in eared architrave below pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. C20 shop front to right. Wide first-floor band. Five first-floor sashes with glazing bars on plain sill band broken by projecting brackets sills to outer and central windows. Outer windows below floating cornices, central window in architrave below cornice supported by fluted consoles. Moulded and bracketed stone cornice to hipped roof with brick rear and side wall stacks.
Rear elevation has two-storey early C19 bow with small-pane windows to back of original house, which also has a substantial double cogged and stepped brick cornice and mid-C19 addition to left. Addition altered to ground floor but with original sashes, some with glazing bars missing, to first and second floors; all below original flat brick arches and with stone sills. Interior has, to rear right, good mid-C18 staircase of curving open-well plan with paterae on open string; this is lit by a Venetian window in the surving wall with Ionic inner columns and outer pilasters, pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice over outer lights; modillion cornice to ceiling; first-floor front room to Left has acanthus-leaf decoration to ceiling cornice and frieze; first-floor front room to right has coved ceiling.
Listing NGR: SE4541221922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342659
- 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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