Quaker Meeting House With Attached Lodges
QUAKER MEETING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED LODGES, PONTEFRACT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135475
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Quaker Meeting House With Attached Lodges
- Statutory Address:
- QUAKER MEETING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED LODGES, PONTEFRACT ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135475
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Quaker Meeting House With Attached Lodges
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUAKER MEETING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED LODGES, PONTEFRACT 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.
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:
- QUAKER MEETING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED LODGES, PONTEFRACT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44147 17281
Details
ACKWORTH PONTEFRACT ROAD SE41NW (west side) Low Ackworth 2/20 Quaker Meeting House 25.3.1968 with attached lodge (formerly listed as "Quaker Meeting House") GV II*
Quaker Meeting House. 1847. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan 3 x 5 bays. Two storeys, in Classical style; symmetrical; pedimented 3-bay entrance front covered at ground floor by Tuscan colonnade of coupled columns with plain entablature (continued to right as facade of lodge - see below); 3 doorways at ground floor, and three 12-pane sashes at 1st floor; with architraves, dentilled pediment, and an oculus within it; apex chimney (or pedestal to former bellcote?). Return walls and rear in matching style. Lodge attached at front right-hand corner, 2 x 2 bays and one storey, is incorporated within the colonnade, but with pilasters and semi-columns, has a narrow central doorway recessed between a pair of semi-columns, and a 12-pane sash in each side bay; right-hand return wall has coupled pilasters to left and right, a single pilaster in the centre, and similar windows. Interior: of Meeting House has a horseshoe gallery supported on slender iron columns, and at the rear end a raised floor approached by steps to left and right, and protected by plain panelling with ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SE4414717281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342620
- 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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