King's Arms Cottages

KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 1, HEATH COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135549
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1979
List Entry Name:
King's Arms Cottages
Statutory Address:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 1, HEATH COMMON
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135549
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1979
List Entry Name:
King's Arms Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 1, HEATH COMMON
Statutory Address 2:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 2, HEATH COMMON
Statutory Address 3:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 3, HEATH COMMON

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 1, HEATH COMMON
Statutory Address:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 2, HEATH COMMON
Statutory Address:
KING'S ARMS COTTAGES, 3, HEATH COMMON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Warmfield cum Heath
National Grid Reference:
SE 35627 19956

Details

SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON (south side)

6/80 Nos 1/2/3 King's 31.7.79 Arms Cottages

GV II

Row of cottages, now a single dwelling. Early C17, altered c1725 and early C19. Hammer-dressed stone, part brick to rear, internal timbered-arcade to rear outshut from earlier C17 house, stone slate roof. 3-cell through-passage plan converted to 3 single cell cottages early C19. 2 storeys, three lst-floor windows; C17 single-storey outshut to rear of 2nd and 3rd cells. Quoins. First 2 cells have C19 fenestration: paired doorways with deep monolithic lintels flanked by windows with similar deep lintels and projecting sills retaining Yorkshire sash windows with small-pane glazing. 3rd cell has C18 fenestration: doorway with tie-stone jambs and shallow-arched lintel initialled and dated " A " to left of R:W 1725 3-light mullioned window with overlapping lintel and flat-faced mullions with inner chamfer; similar window above. Brick stack to left gable and another at junction of 2nd and 3rd cells. Rear: outshut has doorway with monolithic lintel;4 bays of C20 windows with concrete lintels and sills, added 2-storey brick bay to right.

Interior: posts on padstones; straight braces to arcade-plate and tie-beam with raised roof with soft-wood fish-bone king-post trusses with separate tie-beams.

Listing NGR: SE3562719956

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Legacy System number:
342385
Legacy System:
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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.

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