Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse

Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse, Pontefract Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226646
Date first listed:: 11-May-1988
List Entry Name:: Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse, Pontefract Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226646
Date first listed:: 11-May-1988
List Entry Name:: Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse, Pontefract Road

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse, Pontefract Road

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Hemsworth
National Grid Reference:: SE 44346 14998

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards

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HEMSWORTH PONTEFRACT ROAD (east side, off) Hemsworth Lanes Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17, altered and enlarged. Coursed squared sandstone (part rendered), stone slate roof. T-shaped plan formed by two-unit main range on east-west axis with single-unit rear wing on north side. Two-storey and attic; moulded plinth, moulded dripbands on two levels, the lower stepped; ground floor rendered and openings altered, but remains of mullioned window visible to right of inserted central doorway; four square recessed windows at first floor, all formerly cross-windows but glazing altered; dripband over these windows, and wall raised by four courses, left (west) return wall rendered, a coupled twelve-pane fixed window on each floor. Right hand return wall has coupled windows at ground floor, formerly transomed window at first floor (altered), and small attic window. Rear wall has cut-down external chimney stack between main range and C19 addition, which has chamfered plinth, first floor band(carried round from main range), doorway to right, coupled cross windows to left, and large three-light casement at first floor replacing formerly similar window.

Interior: former rear wall of main range has large Tudor-arched doorway with chamfered surround and massive studded door; first bay said to contain very large stone arched fireplace and beams (now all concealed); second bay has cross-corner fireplaces on both floors, that in the upper room with large moulded plaster overmantel containing a square cartouche surrounded by raised pomegranates, all within an architrave with Ionic pilasters and dentilled cornice.

Listing NGR: SE4434614998

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 424031
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.