The Wakefield Arms
THE WAKEFIELD ARMS, MONK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245773
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Wakefield Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE WAKEFIELD ARMS, MONK STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03850/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245773
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Wakefield Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WAKEFIELD ARMS, MONK 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:
- THE WAKEFIELD ARMS, MONK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3378920390
Details
The following building shall be added:
SE 3220 - SE 3320 MONK STREET
938-/6/10000 The Wakefield Arms
II
Public house c1830, with C20 alterations and additions. Red brick
with Portland cement render. Artificial slate roof, 2 brick stacks
and a rendered gable stack. 3 Storey. Rusticated ground floor. Main
with central double panel doors with overlight and pilaster surround
with entablature above. Eitherside 2 plain sashes with etched glass
panels. Above 3 very tall glazing bar sashes with moulded surrounds
and continuous cill band, above a wooden name board with above again
3 glazing bar sashes with moulded surrounds. Chamfered corner is
plain with a single C20 casement. Park Street front has a narrow
central plain sash which was formerly a doorway, flanked by single
plane sashes with etched glass panes. Above a small inserted central
sash, with a glazing bar sash to the right and a blocked window to the
left, both with moulded surrounds, above a wooden name board and above
similar windows. To the right a single storey C20 addition. This is
the only surviving example of a building covered with Joseph
Asp din's patent Portland cement.
Listing NGR: SE3378920390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 453570
- 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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