Ravensknowle Hall
RAVENSKNOWLE HALL, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223871
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensknowle Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENSKNOWLE HALL, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223871
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensknowle Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAVENSKNOWLE HALL, WAKEFIELD 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.
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:
- RAVENSKNOWLE HALL, WAKEFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16254 16512
Details
WAKEFIELD ROAD 1. 5113 (South Side) Ravensknowle Hall SE 1616 35/1331 II 2. 1859-62. Architect Richard Tress of London. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys and attics. Deeply projecting cornice on double scrolled consoles, attic windows fitting between the consoles. String below consoles. Moulded cornice at 1st floor sill level, sills projecting on tapering brackets. String below brackets. Ground floor horizontally rusticated. Corners project slightly. 1st floor windows are round-arched, have plain raised frames and foliage capitals at impost level, with ornament at apexes; one to right is tripartite, one to left single. Ground floor windows have moulded embrasures, the 3 to right are oblong, the one to left is Venetian. Central 2-storey loggia: ground floor has Doric colonnade, with round-arched doorway (doors with moulded panels and fanlight) and 2 round-arched windows behind: 1st floor has arcade with foliate capitals and with oculi and foliage ornament above, 3 round-arched windows behind. Other elevations have similar detailing. East side has 4 windows on 1st floor. Ground floor has one Venetian window and semi-circular bay with arched French windows, foliage carved in spandrels, on capitals and in panels at bases of columns. Rear has recessed centre with one enormous round-arched staircase window with turned mullions. This one leads into an enormous conservatory, which has since been replaced by a one storey modern extension. Side bays have one window range each ground floor window is round-arched and has projecting moulded frame on elaborately carved corbels. West side has 2-storey extension with simpler detailing: windows to front have simpler concave moulding, round-arched on 1st floor, and segment-headed with keystones on ground floor; at back 1st floor windows are unmoulded, ground floor ones have moulded frames with cornices. Distinctive chimneys: 2 in main block have 2 arches with foliage band at impost level and cornicing at top. One in extension has foliage band at cornice level. Steps to front door flanked by dwarf walls with elaborate cast iron torcheres. Cast iron railings to ground floor loggia. Very impressive interiors with fine foliage moulding in stucco throughout. Circular vaulted porch. Galleried hall: staircase rising behind triple arcade: good cast iron balustrades to staircase and gallery: coved ceiling, top-lit good marble chimneypiece.
Listing NGR: SE1625416512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419747
- 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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