BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT

BANKFIELD MUSEUM, BOOTHTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211183
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: BANKFIELD MUSEUM, BOOTHTOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211183
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: BANKFIELD MUSEUM, BOOTHTOWN ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BANKFIELD MUSEUM, BOOTHTOWN ROAD

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:: SE 09112 26244

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/02/2012

SE 0926 SW 11/197 3.11.54 1164

BOOTHTOWN ROAD (East Side) Bankfield Museum and Screen wall to forecourt

II

1857 and 67 (?). Stone mansion of irregular, extended form. 2 main storeys above a basement. Eaves to hipped, slated roof. Italianate C14/C15 character especially to later main entrance block. This has an exposed, rusticated basement with a carriage porch (now enclosed). Arcading to 2 upper storeys. Behind rises low belvedere tower lighting staircase. West and south sides and 2 storeys with arcaded loggias etc now partly altered. Screen wall to east of forecourt with bowed centre. Interior of main block of considerable interest through much obscured by temporary fittings. Good entrance stair of marble leads up to main, top-lit, hall both with painted decoration, Other rooms apparently of some quality but now with partitions and false ceilings etc. Bankfield was built for Col Akroyd whose mills and model village of Akroydon lie on the west side of Boothtown Road.

Listing NGR: SE0911226244

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Legacy System number:: 338635
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.