Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135530
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135530
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, NEW ROAD
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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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3221512988
Details
SE3212 and SE3213 WOOLLEY NEW ROAD
(west side)
7/133 Orchard cottage
(formerly listed
as cottage opposite
Mount Farm)
GV II
Two cottages one partly converted to stable now used as single dwelling.
Early C18 cottage altered to stable early C19 to right of slightly later,
cottage. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. Each has
2-cell plan with direct-entry into 2nd cell. Left-hand cottage: quoins.
2 bays of windows with deep lintels to left of doorway with similar deep
lintel. 1st-floor windows have narrow lintels just under eaves. Coped
gable with kneelers to left. Central ridge stack. Earlier cottage, on
right, breaks forward and is higher. Quoins. 2 bays of 3-light double-
chamfered mullioned windows with almost square reveals to each floor.
Right-hand window altered when tall central doorway inserted for horse access
to stable. Both window and door have semicircular-arched lintels, doorway has
tie-stone jambs, window has projecting sill. Gable stack to left. Rear: the
2 cottages are flush, with quoins at the division between the 2 builds. Former
doorway (now window) to left has lintel painted "RYHILL POST OFFICE". 2 doorways
to left (one blocked) have wooden lintels. 2 inserted 1st-floor windows. Right-
hand return has 1st-floor doorway with monolithic jambs approached up flight of
3 stone steps.
Interior: both cottages have stop-chamfered spine beams of large scantling; one
cell of left cottage has beamed ceiling with square cut joists.
Listing NGR: SE3221512988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342438
- 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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