Meltham Hall

MELTHAM HALL, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183888
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Meltham Hall
Statutory Address:
MELTHAM HALL, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183888
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Meltham Hall
Statutory Address 1:
MELTHAM HALL, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MELTHAM HALL, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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

District:
Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Meltham
National Grid Reference:
SE 10615 10744

Details

SE 11 SW HUDDERSFIELD ROAD (south side) 2/27 (Meltham)

6th April 1967 Meltham Hall

G.V. II

Large detached residence. 1841 with late C19 addition to east. Built for William Leigh Brook. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Deep ashlar plinth. Hipped slate roof. Two storeys. 3-bay entrance and garden fronts, 4-bay side elevation. Bay divisions are marked by giant pilasters with capitals with anthemion decoration. The pilasters are coupled on the side elevation. Broad ashlar eaves band and cornce surmounted by balustraded parapet with dies over pilasters, rounded on entrance and garden elevations, and in the form of triangular pediments on side elevation. The garden front has central ground floor bow with balcony over. Sash windows with glazing bars, in architrave surrounds. Side elevation has similar windows to 1st floor, those to ground floor having paired pilaster surrounds. Entrance front has central door with later, very elaborate porte-cochere of cast iron and glass. Venetian window to 1st floor.

The only interior feature to survive is the central stone staircase with decorative cast iron balustrade.

Listing NGR: SE1061510744

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
340863
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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