Silcoates House and School
Silcoates House and School, Silcoates Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135492
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Silcoates House and School
- Statutory Address:
- Silcoates House and School, Silcoates Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135492
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Silcoates House and School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Silcoates House and School, Silcoates Lane
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:
- Silcoates House and School, Silcoates 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:
- SE3109822092
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE32SW
4/60
STANLEY
Wrenthorpe
SILCOATES LANE (south side)
Silcoates House and School
II
House and school. The house built c1748 for John Lumb, the school 1870s (mainly destroyed) 1907 and later, in-keeping. Brick with ashlar bands and dressings to principal openings. Welsh slate roofs. Two and three storeys. The main house is symmetrical and consists of a three-storey range of three bays with two-storey, two-bay side wings. The centre bay is set in a recessed giant round-arched panel. Central round-arched doorway with Tuscan engaged colonettes rising from ground-floor sill band supporting a frieze and triangular dentilled pediment. Two-storey canted bays to each side with colonnettes dividing the three-lights and ogee domed roofs. Twelve-pane sashes. Five six-pane sashes to second floor. Moulded brackets to gutter. Lateral stacks. Hipped roof. Twelve-pane sashes to side wings.
The school extends to the left with a two-storey range, with seven-bays of ground-floor casements and first-floor sashes and casements. Between bays five and six is a giant pedimented projecting wing with a giant Venetian window flanked by paired Ionic pilasters. Foundation tablets at base, oculus in tympanum.
Further to the left is another three-storey range, possibly 1870s, almost identical to the main house but with a further two bays at the left side. Further range to the left and left return, in-keeping, but of lesser interest. The rear of the house has a central projecting wing with a round-arched stair window. Further later additions.
Interior: not inspected but house is said to retain original stair and moulded ceilings.
The house passed from the possession of the Lumb family to the Kendal family. In 1820 it was leased by Dissenters who formed the Yorkshire Dissenters' Grammar School which in 1831 became the Congregational School for the Counties of York and Lancaster and in 1832 was renamed the Northern Congregational School. Further building took place in the 1870s and the five-bay three-storey range may be a survival of this period. Much of the school was destroyed in a fire of April 13th 1904.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1967.
K. Taylor. Wakefield District Heritage, 1975. (Wakefield EAHY Committee)
Listing NGR: SE3109822092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342553
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, K, Wakefield District Heritage, (1975)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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