Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison

Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison, Love Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258245
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1979
List Entry Name:: Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison
Statutory Address:: Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison, Love Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258245
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1979
List Entry Name:: Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison
Statutory Address 1:: Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison, Love Lane

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:: Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison, Love Lane

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:: SE 32510 20879

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards

SE 3220 NE 1/189

LOVE LANE (West Side) Central and administrative blocks, with walls and pavilions adjoining north and south, at entrance to HM Prison

19.1.79.

II

1847 by Bernard Hartley, surveyor to West Riding Magistrates.

Central block. One tall storey in the form of a triumphal arch. Rusticated ashlar. Modified Doric entablature under a tall parapet with pilasters rising through. Recessed centre holds two vermiculate rusticated Roman Doric columns in antis supporting an entablature and flanking a large studded door of sixteen panels with a similar studded fanlight area. Voussoirs and vermiculate keystone above. Side bays hold round arched windows in coved reveals with voussoirs and bracketed cills; small panes and radial heads. From the back of this building short stretches of high rusticated walls correct with: b.

Administrative blocks. Each is a three-storey, five-bay, double-pile building, forming a symmetrical composition although the south block has a later one-bay extension. Ashlar with raised quoins, plinth, wide first floor cill band and deep, bracketed eaves cornice to hipped, swept, slated roof, Two sets of stacks between ridges. Casement windows under heavy voussoirs; projecting cills on first floor, sunk apron panels on ground floor. Aedicule treatment to first floor centre window. Tripartite central entrance has double door with oblong fanlights and side lights in pilaster and entablature frame. Some windows blocked in the northern building. These buildings are said to incorporate some stonework from the original House of Correction. From north and south blocks run: c.

Tall ashlar walls with rounded coping sweeping out in segmental curves to the front plane where small ashlar pavilions having plinth, vermiculate quoins, niche, cornice and blocking course, complete the composition.

Listing NGR: SE3251020879

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 444629
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.