Court House
COURT HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184977
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184977
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE, FRONT 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:
- COURT HOUSE, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45355 21962
Details
PONTEFRACT FRONT STREET SE 4521 NW (north side) 7/23 Court House (formerly listed as County 29.7.50 Police Offices Session House, under Corn Market)
GV II
Court house, now partly offices. 1807. By Charles Watson. Ashlar, horizontally rusticated to main front, with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and 9 bays with lower two-storey single bay to left. Plinth. Two outer bays to either side advanced and 3 central bays with full-height Ionic portico columns on deep plinths, entablature with plain frieze and pediment above with Royal achievement. Central doorcase had double panelled door below plain overlight in doorcase with consoled cornice. To either side there are 4 tall sash windows with glazing bars, plus similar to left-hand bay. Above, 9 similar sashes with projecting sills and a fixed 9-pane window in partially-blocked opening to left-hand bay. Moulded stone cornice with blocking course, except to left-hand bay which has plain eaves. Hipped roofs throughout. Rear elevation has full-height canted bays to either side and wide 5-bay shallow bow between. Steps to central doorcase with panelled jambs, consoled cornice, C20 double-panelled door and plain overlight. Tall sashes with glazing bars to either side and to the canted bays. 11 similar sashes above with projecting sills. Cornice and blocking course as front. To either side of central bow are original partly-fluted hopper-heads to downpipes. Interior completely remodelled c.1960. Derek Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (1978), p. 334.
Listing NGR: SE4535521962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342662
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 334
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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