CLIFFE HOUSE

CLIFFE HOUSE, LANE HEAD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254268
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CLIFFE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CLIFFE HOUSE, LANE HEAD ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254268
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CLIFFE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFFE HOUSE, LANE HEAD ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CLIFFE HOUSE, LANE HEAD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Kirkburton
National Grid Reference:: SE 19217 09452

Details

SE 10 NE LANE HEAD ROAD 8/105 (west side), Shepley Cliffe House

II

House now field centre. 1888-91 for S. Senior (brewer). Ashlar to principal elevations, coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings to rest; Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement. 3x3 bays, of double-pile plan, with single-storey billiard room projecting to rear left and matching single-storey outbuilding range to rear right. Chamfered plinth; moulded 1st - floor band and sill band; moulded mullion and transom windows with coloured and painted glass to overlights; timber-framed gables with moulded bressumers and barge boards. Entrance front: central entrance up steps has wide panelled door, the upper part traceried, in billeted shouldered-arched architrave with similarly-arched 2-light overlight and transomed side-lights, all under swept leaded canopy; a 3-light window above. Outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows with traceried panels below upper windows, that on left having corbelled, decoratively - banded stone roof below corbelled gable, that on right set directly below smaller gable. Roof hipped on right. 3 broad, tabled, multiple-flue stacks. Right return: central bay has segmental-arched door and window below tall, 3-light stair window with cusped upper lights below sexfoils; corbelled gable above with 3-light attic window. (Continued) 3-light windows to left bay; wide untransomed, 3-light window (to kitchen) on right with 4-light window above. Outbuilding range on right has 3 board doors with overlights and 2-light window to left. Left return: Outer bays gabled. 3-light windows, except for swept-leaded-roofed bay window between left-hand bays flanked by single-light windows. On left, billiard room, of painted stone, has inserted door long skylight and end stack to left; its gable end has two 2-light windows and corbelled gable. Interior: Most of the late-C19 features survive and are of a high quality. They include panelled birds-eye maple doors in fluted architraves on ground and 1st floors; good polished-stone fireplaces with iron grates and, in two 1st-floor rooms, decorative-tiled surrounds; bird - and flower-painted medallions to overlights of ground and 1st-floor windows; coloured glass to doors, side-panels and over-panels of ground-floor cloakroom and 1st-floor bathrooms and W.C., these all with brown-decorated wall tiles. In addition, the entrance lobby has a mosaic floor and side-walls painted with Highland Scenes; entrance hall has 4-centred archway and elaborate frieze and cornice, as also the drawing-room (front, left); former dining room (rear, left) has inlaid border to floor, panelled walls and Adam-style wooden fireplace with architraved overpanel; the dog-leg stone stair has decorative iron balustrade with moulded wooden handrail, is lit by fine coloured-glass window and rises to landing which has panelled piers to 2 bay arcade; both stair and landing have floral friezes and elaborate light roundels; decorative iron lanterns to entrance hall and landing; green baize door to service area, in which the butler's pantry and kitchen retain wall-cupboards and drawers, those in the pantry of better-quality wood; the pantry is entered by part-glazed door in pedimented architrave and has tiled walls, 2 thicknesses of window, and formerly a safe rose under water pressure from the basement up into the wall cupboard.

Listing NGR: SE1921709452

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Legacy System number:: 341264
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.