Co's House at Wellesley Barracks
CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1246203
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-2001
- Statutory Address:
- CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1246203
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-2001
- Statutory Address 1:
- CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CO'S HOUSE AT WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET 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:
- SE0704925289
Details
SE 02 NE
679/4/10288
23-JAN-01
HALIFAX
GIBBET STREET
(North,off)
CO's House at Wellesley Barracks
GV
II
Also Known As: Office at Wellesley Park, GIBBET STREET
Commanding Officer's House, now office. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with raised and coped gables with kneelers. 2 tall external chimney stacks. Quoins and plinth. 2 storey.
Main west front has central doorway with glazed panel door and wooden hood with segmental leaded top supported on wooden brackets. Above is a single window. Gabled wing to right projects slightly. Either side are pairs of plain sashes with segment heads, and above pairs of similar sashes.
This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellington's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, known as the 'Dukes'.
Listing NGR: SE0704925289
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 487427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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