Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, 1 AND 3, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266011
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 1 AND 3, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266011
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 1 AND 3, TOWN GATE
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, 1 AND 3, TOWN GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 20793 37157
Details
SE 23NW
2/160
PUDSEY
Calverley
TOWN GATE LS28 (east side),
Nos 1 and 3, Church House
(Formerly listed as Church House (2 dwellings))
25.5.66
GV
II*
Large pair of semi-detached houses. Mid C18 with rear service block added
c1800. Well-coursed dressed stone to front, hammer-dressed stone to sides
and rear, stone slate roof. 3 storeys and attics, double-depth. 6-bay
symmetrical facade. Raised chamfered quoins, 1st- and 2nd-floor bands, eaves
cornice. Central 2 bays have identical doorways with architraves, pulvinated
friezes and cornices. All windows have raised square surrounds and retain
16-pane sashes except those to second floor which has smaller windows with
20-pane sashes. Coped gables with kneelers and end stacks. Rear plainer with
recessed flat-faced mullion windows. Left-hand return has similar windows and
taking-in door (blocked) to each of the upper floors. Right-hand return, facing
into the churchyard and therefore open to public view, has 4 ground-floor windows
as front (some blocked) and some to upper-floor outer bays.
Interior: stair-halls with relatively late staircases separated from each other
by a thick stone wall, each hall partitioned from the front parlours by another
stone wall. Rear rooms have 2 spine beams and corner fireplaces.
A house of fine stone detail prominently sited next to the church and unusual
in being an early example of semi-detached housing.
RCHM (England) report. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire : The West Riding, (1979) p 154.
Listing NGR: SE2079337157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 154
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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