Retaining Wall and Boundary Wall at Royal Halifax Infirmary
RETAINING WALL AND BOUNDARY WALL AT ROYAL HALIFAX INFIRMARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245211
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall and Boundary Wall at Royal Halifax Infirmary
- Statutory Address:
- RETAINING WALL AND BOUNDARY WALL AT ROYAL HALIFAX INFIRMARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245211
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall and Boundary Wall at Royal Halifax Infirmary
- Statutory Address 1:
- RETAINING WALL AND BOUNDARY WALL AT ROYAL HALIFAX INFIRMARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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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:
- RETAINING WALL AND BOUNDARY WALL AT ROYAL HALIFAX INFIRMARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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:
- SE0903124031
Details
SE 02 SE
679-/7/10257
HALIFAX
FREE SCHOOL LANE
(North side)
Retaining wall and boundary wall at Royal Halifax Infirmary
GV
II
Retaining wall and boundary wall. 1892-96. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings. Retaining wall, approx. 100m, runs from the lodge (block 11) across the front of the administration block (04). The wall increases in height from left to right with the slope of the site. Chamfered coping topped with a coped balustrade, with dice and ball finials. Boundary wall, to right, approx. 80m long, fronting ward blocks 01 and 02. Chamfered coping formerly topped with a railing, and coped square piers. Plain gateway at right end. (Thomas Worthington, Victorian Architecture and Social Purpose: Anthony J Pass: Manchester Philosophical Society: 1988).
Listing NGR: SE0903124031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pass, A, Thomas Worthington Victorian Architecture and Social Purpose, (1988)
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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