THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL

THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL, WHITWOOD COMMON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135543
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL
Statutory Address:: THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL, WHITWOOD COMMON LANE

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Date:: 2007-10-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135543
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL, WHITWOOD COMMON LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE BRIGGS MEMORIAL HALL, WHITWOOD COMMON 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 40556 24340

Details

CASTLEFORD WHITWOOD COMMON LANE SE42SW (north side) 4/12 The Briggs Memorial 14.4.1975 Hall (formerly listed ast Castleford Briggs 5 Memorial Hall) GV II Meeting hall. c1907, by C. F. A. Voysey for Henry Briggs and Son. Roughcast render on brick, tiled roof. Small rectangular 5-bay building in Arts and Crafts style, with simple battered buttresses. The east gable end has a canted flat-roofed porch with a doorway in the centre and a simple rectangular window in each side; above the porch a rectangular sandstone plaque lettered:- IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR CURRER BRIGGS BORN 1855 DIED 1906 and above this a large lunette window with rectilinear-pattern glazing bars, and a hoodmould with run-out ends. The side walls have smaller but similar lunette windows at the top of each bay. Roof with swept eaves, barge-boarded at the gable. Attached at each rear corner is a small single-cell building of square section, with similar buttresses, a doorway in the front wall and a small window in the side (probably toilets).

Listing NGR: SE4055624340

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Legacy System number:: 342474
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.