North Stable Block at Woolley Hall
NORTH STABLE BLOCK AT WOOLLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183580
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- North Stable Block at Woolley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH STABLE BLOCK AT WOOLLEY HALL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183580
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- North Stable Block at Woolley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH STABLE BLOCK AT WOOLLEY HALL
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:
- NORTH STABLE BLOCK AT WOOLLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32784 13145
Details
SE3212 and SE3213 WOOLLEY WOOLLEY PARK
7/144 22.11.66 North stable block at Woolley Hall
GV II
Stables, now accommodation for residential college. Early C19, possibly by Watson and Pritchett c1805-10 (Markham p45). Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. U-shaped plan facing south-east. 2 storeys. 9-bay symmetrical facade with 7-bay symmetrical wings. Continuous plinth, 1st-floor sill band. Central range: bays 2, 5 and 7 break forward slightly and have semicircular-arched recesses to ground floor, tall 24-pane sashes to 1st floor of bays 2 and 7, and to bay 5 a Diocletian window and pedimented gable, the tympanum with heraldic plaque carved with the Wentworth griffin. Gable topped by clock-tower with open rotunda and lead dome surmounted by weathervane with griffin crest. Other bays have 16-pane sash windows with lintels and projecting sills. Eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Outer bays under low roof, linking main blocks to wings, have round-headed doorways. Wings: inner returns have central 3 bays breaking forward under open pedimented gables, central doorways with narrower flanking windows and central round-headed 1st-floor window with impost band; hipped roofs; West wing with gable stack.
G. Markham, Woolley Hall (1979).
Listing NGR: SE3278413145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Markham, G, Woolley Hall, (1979)
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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