TA Drill Hall
TA DRILL HALL, PRESCOTT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245575
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- TA Drill Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TA DRILL HALL, PRESCOTT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245575
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- TA Drill Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TA DRILL HALL, PRESCOTT STREET
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:
- TA DRILL HALL, PRESCOTT STREET
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 09454 24811
Details
HALIFAX
SE 0924 NW
PRESCOTT STREET
(North side)
679/18/10279
TA Drill Hall
II
Alternatively known as: TA Drill Hall, CLARE STREET.
Drill Hall, built as the headquarters of the 4th West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. 1868-70. Designed by R Coad. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Prescott Street front has drill hall to right under very broad shallow gable with Gothic arched corbel table and end buttresses. Central slightly projecting gabled porch with double pointed arched doorway, double plank doors and decorated tympanum, above a large circular window with octofoil tracery. Either side 3 small lancet windows with to right a pointed arch doorway with plank door and overflight, and to left a pair of plain sashes. To left 2 storey range with a pointed arch doorway with plank door and overflight and to left a 3-light and a 2-light sash window with pointed and cusped head to each light, above single through eaves gabled dormer window with 2 lancets and a blocked quatrefoil. Union Street front single storey 9 window hall range and 2 window cross wing to right. Projecting central porch has blocked pointed archway with reduced gable above, either side 4 windows with buttresses between and a triple lancet to each window, that to right of porch has C20 doorway inserted. Beyond 2 storey gabled cross wing with paired sash to left and doorway and linked window to right, above 2 tall 2-light lancet windows with transoms and quatrefoils. Above a circular window with unusual quatrefoil tracery and small trefoils. Clare Street front has central gabled wing with two large 2-light pointed arched windows with flush plate tracery and upper quatrefoils, in apex of gable another quatrefoil, either side blank walls with single gates. To left a 2 storey block with through eaves gabled donner window. To right 2 storey block with pairs of 2-light sashes and above two large 2-light pointed arched windows with flush plate tracery and upper trefoils. INTERIOR has single large drill hall with viewing gallery to south with original wooden balustrade and steel tension roof.
Listing NGR: SE0945424811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472967
- 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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