Old Town Hall, 3-9 Old Town Hall Cottages and attached gateway
3-9, Old Town Hall Cottages, Old Town
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227155
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall, 3-9 Old Town Hall Cottages and attached gateway
- Statutory Address:
- 3-9, Old Town Hall Cottages, Old Town
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227155
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall, 3-9 Old Town Hall Cottages and attached gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3-9, Old Town Hall Cottages, Old Town
- Statutory Address 2:
- Old Town Hall, Old Town
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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:
- 3-9, Old Town Hall Cottages, Old Town
- Statutory Address:
- Old Town Hall, Old Town
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99903 28370
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/04/2020
SD 92NE
SD 998283
7/228
WADSWORTH C.P.
OLD TOWN
Old Town Hall and Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, Old Town Hall Cottages and attached gateway
1.11.66
GV
II
House, early C17, with added C18 cottages. Flow forms several residences. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys and attic. Tudor arched gateway with cyma moulded surround leads into enclosed courtyard facing main feature of house, tall impressive gabled two-storey porch with Tudor arched doorway with sunken spandrels with shields and moulded surround; ten-light double chamfered mullioned and transomed window over to porch chamber. Coped gable with kneelers and ball finials. String course continues over ground floor windows to either side, double chamfered mullioned. Altered window with five-light window to left. To right seven-light window with five-light over. Rear wing at right angles has two windows of six lights with long window of sixteen lights over to first floor. Some mullions removed. Coped gable with kneelers and finials. Other mullioned windows. Several stacks to ridge one with three coupled diamond set flues. North elevation of cottages fronts lane and has mainly altered two-light windows to first floor and inserted doorways. No 7 is part of main range and has gable with four-light double chamfered mullioned window with one of five lights to first floor.
Listing NGR: SD9990328370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 325
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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