Moorhouse
MOORHOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135550
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Moorhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOORHOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135550
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moorhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORHOUSE, HEATH COMMON
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:
- MOORHOUSE, 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 35667 19976
Details
SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON (south side)
6/81 Moorhouse (formerly 22.11.66 listed as Highways)
GV II
House and cottage, now one. Late C18 cottage, house c1800, mid C20 additions. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate and Welsh blue-slate roofs. 2 storeys. House on left: double-depth. 3-bay symmetrical facade. Doorway has architrave, triangular pediment and glazed overlight. Windows to each floor have flush plain-stone surrounds and original 12-pane sashes with thin meeting rails. Moulded eaves cornice. 2-span roof with original brick gable stacks to front roof, rear roof blue-slate. Cottage: 3 bays, lower than house. Quoins. Central doorway has plain-stone surrounds. Outer bays have smaller 12-pane sash windows than house. Brick gable stack to right. Rear: originally L-shaped. Mid-C20 projecting single-storey wing to left and lean-to linking with original cell to rear of house on right. Added C20 stack. Gable stack to right. Left-hand return has quoins between rear and front cells. Rear has large 12-pane sash window with plain surround and projecting sill to each floor. Right-hand return: sash window with arch-headed window above, the jambs renewed when addition to right with 2 sash windows was built in keeping.
Interior: remodelled in 1978 by Francis Johnson (architect, Bridlington) when much fine C18 woodwork from No 12, Cluntergate, Horbury (demolished) by Robert Carr for the Nortons was incorporated: open stair-hall has open-well stair, gun-barrel turned newel, finely-turned balusters, 3 to each riser, swept handrail; beam above the soffit decorated with Greek-key pattern and carved wooden bracketed moulded ceiling cornice. Dining-room: small fireplace with bolection-moulded surround, square Doric columns, full frieze and entablature casement-moulded cornice decorated with guttae. Sitting-room has small fireplace with architrave, impost and dropped keystone; carved wooden dentil cornice. Drawing-room extended reusing Doric pilasters and entablature; finely-carved C18-style marble and wood fireplace (designed by Francis Johnson, executed by Dick Reid).
Listing NGR: SE3566719976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342386
- 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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