Prospect Place
PROSPECT PLACE, 9, 11 AND 11A, SPRINGFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135683
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Place
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT PLACE, 9, 11 AND 11A, SPRINGFIELD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135683
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT PLACE, 9, 11 AND 11A, SPRINGFIELD STREET
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:
- PROSPECT PLACE, 9, 11 AND 11A, SPRINGFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34581 27878
Details
In the entry for
SE 32 NW ROTHWELL SPRINGFIELD STREET (south side) Rothwell
5/108 Nos. 9, 11 & 13 (Prospect Place)
The address shall be amended to read -
SE 32 NW Rothwell SPRINGFIELD STREET (south side), Rothwell
5/108 Nos. 9, 11 & lla (Prospect Place)
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SE 32 NW ROTHWELL SPRINGFIELD STREET LS26 (south side), Rothwell
5/108 Nos 9, 11, and 13 (Prospect Place)
II
Poorhouse, now 3 dwellings, Built 1772 (Batty p.132); altered at various dates. Brown brick in English Garden Wall bond (3 + 1), stone slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, with centre projecting to front and rear. 2 1/2 storeys and 7 bays, formerly symmetrical, with wide pedimented 3-bay centre breaking forwards (front and rear) , the pediment defined by a 3-course band with dentilled middle course, and that at the front containing a stone tablet inscribed "PROSPECT PLACE"; some blocked vertical rectangular windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads, but mostly now large sashes with exposed boxes, those in the centre and right (all No. 9) with 4 panes; doors to Nos. 9 and 11 with rectangular overlights; left end (No. 13) altered and rendered. 2 ridge chimneys, end wall chimneys. Right return wall of 3 bays has in the centre a door of 6 fielded panels with 10-pane overlight and raised stone surround, and on each side of each floor a very large blind window with gauged brick head and stone sill. Rear similar to front, but has stone head and jambs of former doorway at ground floor of projected centre. Bridge linking 1st floor of right-hand return wall to adjoining property not included in the item. Interior not inspected.
History: built as poor house for parish of Rothwell 1772, but changed function when separate townships established their own poorhouses 1814, becoming inter alia debtors' prison, and subsequently surgery. Reference John Batty History of Rothwell (1877).
Listing NGR: SE3458127878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342116
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Batty, J, History of Rothwell, (1877), 132
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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