BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135648
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387
Statutory Address:: BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135648
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387
Statutory Address 1:: BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BECCA HALL (HOUSE ONLY) AT SE419387

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Aberford
National Grid Reference:: SE 41927 38743

Details

ABERFORD SE43NW LS25 2/1 Becca Hall (house only) at SE419387

II

Country house, now offices. Late C18, attributed to William Lindley for William Markham; enlarged and altered in C19. Sandstone ashlar, low-pitched hipped slate roofs on 2 levels. Original house of rectangular double-depth plan, enlarged by addition of set-back receding crosswings and extension to rear between these. Classical style, symmetrical. Main range of 2 storeys and 5 bays, with 3-bay pediment breaking a balustraded parapet, has a tetrastyle Tuscan porch with entablature surmounted by a shield with scrolled bearers, a large single-storey canted bay on each side and tripartite sashed window above (probably C19 alterations), 4 sashed windows as lst-floor and an oculus in the pediment. Wings of 2 higher storeys with the appearance of 3; each has a lst-floor sillband, on each floor a tripartite sashed window in a shallow segmental-headed recess, and above the ground-floor window a low tripartite mezzanine window; a moulded cornice and low parapet with urn finials on the corners. Rear of main range remodelled in C19 to make principal entrance and staircase. Interior: central reception hall with flying stone staircase (C19); principal ground-floor rooms have moulded plaster decoration in exuberant late C19 style, and that in the east wing also has fielded panelling which may be C18. William Markham was Private Secretary to Governor General of India, Warren Hastings. (Service wing attached at west end and modern workshop wing to north are not included in the item).

Listing NGR: SE4192738743

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Legacy System number:: 342219
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.