Abbott's Ladies Home

ABBOTT'S LADIES HOME, 8 AND 9, SKIRCOAT GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243977
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
Abbott's Ladies Home
Statutory Address:
ABBOTT'S LADIES HOME, 8 AND 9, SKIRCOAT GREEN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243977
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
Abbott's Ladies Home
Statutory Address 1:
ABBOTT'S LADIES HOME, 8 AND 9, SKIRCOAT GREEN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ABBOTT'S LADIES HOME, 8 AND 9, SKIRCOAT GREEN 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 09220 23357

Details

off SKIRCOAT GREEN ROAD 1. 5112 (east side) ) Nos 8 & 9 Abbott's Ladies Home SE 02 SE 679-/7/10009

II GV 2. Pair of almshouses. c1870. By F Swindbn-Barber. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with finials. 2 tall ridge stacks. Chamfered plinth, and first floor band. 2 storey, 4 windows. 2 slightly projecting central gables with two 4-light chamfered cross mullion windows, and above two 3-light chamfered mullion windows with wooden transoms and ashlar hoods, all with glazing bar casements. Eitherside are single doorways with moulded ashlar bow-headed door surrounds with part glazed 6-panel doors, and beyond single narrow windows. Above single lancers with moulded heads.

Listing NGR: SE0922023357

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Legacy System number:
447640
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.

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