Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall
Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall, Station Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265736
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall, Station Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265736
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall, Station Road
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:
- Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall, Station Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4307113331
Details
SE41SW
5/54
HEMSWORTH
STATION ROAD (north side)
Hemsworth High School: that part which was formerly Hemsworth High Hall
(formerly listed as "Grammar School")
7.12.1966
II
Large house, formerly known as Hemsworth High Hall; now part of school. C17, remodelled in later C18, and subsequently enlarged, with added wings. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roofs. Double-pile plan. Two storeys over cellars; symmetrical, with five-bay main range and three-bay side wings; main range has first floor band and raised quoins, tetrastyle Tuscan porch with triglyphe frieze and prominent cornice with mutules, protecting doorway with moulded architrave (altered as window); four windows at ground floor (sashed without glazing bars) and five twelve-pane sashes at first floor, all these windows with raised plain surrounds; moulded eaves cornice, low-pitched hipped roof, ridge chimney offset to right, and side wall chimneys at junctions with wings.
Slightly set-back side wings, of two higher storeys and three bays, the centre breaking forwards slightly, each have two first-floor bands, pilasters flanking the central ground floor windows, fenestration matching that of the main range, modillioned cornice, and balustraded parapet (formerly surmounted by urns). Left return wall of left wing has large round-headed stair window. Rear of main range has twelve-pane sashes on both floors, with raised plain surrounds. (Various modern buildings attached eg. to front of each wing, and at both ends, not of special interest).
Interior: main range has three vaulted cellars, linked by C17 Tudor-arched doorways with roll-moulded surrounds (possibly relocated); main range formerly of single-depth, as shown by thickness of present longitudinal partition wall; at west end of main range, a dog-legged cantilevered stone staircase with scrolled brackets and iron balusters of matching shape; at first floor, some front rooms have bow-fronted cupboards under window sills, and two rear rooms have iron decorated hob-grate fireplaces of ducks-nest shape; otherwise, altered.
Listing NGR: SE4307113331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424033
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Holdsworth, G, Hemsworth High Hall A Georgian Country House, (1982)
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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