61-78 and 79-96 Railway Terrace
RAILWAY TERRACE, 61-78, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138771
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 61-78 and 79-96 Railway Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY TERRACE, 61-78, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138771
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 61-78 and 79-96 Railway Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY TERRACE, 61-78, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- RAILWAY TERRACE, 79-96, ST STEPHEN'S 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:
- RAILWAY TERRACE, 61-78, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY TERRACE, 79-96, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0843722517
Details
5112
SE 02 SE
SP/597
ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Nos 61-79 (consecutive)
Includes 79-96 (consecutive)
Railway Terrace
II
GV
Back-to-back terrace of 36 houses, 1840's for Colonel Edward Akroyd probably
by W H Crossland. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
Tudor arched doors with ornamental strap hinges in stop-chamfered surrounds.
End houses break forward under coped gables with 3 light mullion and transom
windows to both floors and blind lancet above. Door in return elevation. Others
have door with 3 light mullion and transom window to alternate sides with 3
light mullion window above but offset and single light to other side forming
a pair with adjacent house. Nos 66/67 and 72/73 (also 84/85 and 90/91 Railway
Terrace) similar but with shared gabled dormer with paired single light with
transom. All windows double chamfered. Projecting course at eaves provides
continuous support to cast iron gutter. 10 stacks to ridge have plinth and
tabling. Garden walls to St Stephen's Street in narrow coursed sandstone with
triangular copings. Important early example of planned industrial housing.
N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1979) p 170; D Linstrum, West Yorkshire
Architects and Architecture (London 1978) p 135-6.
Listing NGR: SE0843722517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 135-136
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 170
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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