Ridgemount
RIDGEMOUNT, TALBOT AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239517
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Ridgemount
- Statutory Address:
- RIDGEMOUNT, TALBOT AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239517
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Ridgemount
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIDGEMOUNT, TALBOT AVENUE
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:
- RIDGEMOUNT, TALBOT AVENUE
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 12260 17991
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2012
SE 1217 27/1253
5113
TALBOT AVENUE
(North Side)
Lindley
Ridgemount
II
Ridgemount was built in 1922-3 by Joseph Berry & Sons, Architects, for Ralph Murgatroyd. Joseph Berry was an admirer of Edgar Wood who built the adjacent Briarcourt (Listed Grade II). Hammer dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Pitched stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Some gables, coped and linked by low parapet. Mullioned and transomed windows, chamfered. Broad canted bay at east end. Parapeted. Porch with crenellated parapet and door with cornices, leaded lights and ornamental Arts and Crafts cast iron hinges. Various Arts and Crafts rainwater heads and junction boxes with embossed ornament. Interior. Hall has Jacobethan wainscotting and moulded plaster ceiling with arabesque ornament. Main south-east room has more elaborate wainscotting, with ornamented panelled pilasters, dentilled cornice, and many panels carved with arabesque ornament: chimneypiece flanked by Tuscan colonnettes, and overmantel with applied Ionic balusters: particularly elaborate brass fingerplates and spirally fluted door handles.
Listing NGR: SE1226017991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417421
- 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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