Kirkby Common Farmhouse
KIRKBY COMMON FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD, BRIERLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265328
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkby Common Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKBY COMMON FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD, BRIERLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265328
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkby Common Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKBY COMMON FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD, BRIERLEY
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:
- KIRKBY COMMON FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD, BRIERLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- South Kirkby and Moorthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 43595 10266
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/12/2014
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SOUTH KIRKBY
COMMON ROAD (north side)
Kirkby Common Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Kirby Common Farmhouse)
II
Farmhouse. Early to mid C18; altered and enlarged. Coursed squared
sandstone, slate roof with brick chimneys. Transitional double-depth 2-unit
plan (ie. inclusive of outshut). Three storeys at front but low 2-storey
rear under catslide roof. Symmetrical 2-bay facade, rendered at ground
floor; central doorway with raised surround including long-and-short
jambstones and large fluted keystone; 2 windows on each floor, all with
raised surrounds, those at ground and 1st floors probably formerly cross-
windows but now 2-light casements, those at 2nd floor with double-chamfered
surrounds and probably formerly mullioned but now 2-light horizontal-sliding
sashes. Gable copings with shaped kneelers, gable chimneys. Right-hand
return wall rendered, and an inserted window near the front corner. Rear;
former doorway altered as window, 2 small windows to the left and inserted
doorway between them (probably replacing formerly similar window); square
window above; vertical joint to left indicating extension of original
outshut.
Interior: housebody in 1st bay has large rectangular fireplaces central
staircase rising from front to rear in one flight on each level, with splat
balusters from the 1st landing, now partitioned from housebody and splat
balusters of 1st flight removed. (Item resembles Stockingate Farmhouse,
STOCKINGATE q.v.).
Listing NGR: SE4359510266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425363
- 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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