Remains of the Cloth Hall RE Erected in Ravenknowle Park
REMAINS OF THE CLOTH HALL RE ERECTED IN RAVENKNOWLE PARK, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267100
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of the Cloth Hall RE Erected in Ravenknowle Park
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF THE CLOTH HALL RE ERECTED IN RAVENKNOWLE PARK, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267100
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of the Cloth Hall RE Erected in Ravenknowle Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF THE CLOTH HALL RE ERECTED IN RAVENKNOWLE PARK, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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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:
- REMAINS OF THE CLOTH HALL RE ERECTED IN RAVENKNOWLE PARK, WAKEFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16309 16545
Details
WAKEFIELD ROAD 1. 5113 (South Side) Remains of the Huddersfield Cloth Hall, re-erected in Ravensknowle Park (formerly listed as The Cloth Hall, under Ravensknowle Park) SE 1616 35/14 3.3.52. II 2. Pastiche of 1930. Red brick. 2 bay arcades with concentric relieving arches, pedimented at each end, and at south end incorporating the former entrance, viz: rusticated quoins, semi-circular arch with triple keystone and imposts. Tympana have plaques, one over former entrance inscribed "Erected by Sir John Ramsden Bart 1766. Enlarged by His Son Sir John Ramsden Bart 1780," the other inscribed "Restored and improved by his grandson Sir John William Ramsden Bart 1848." Flanked by 2 loggias composed of Tuscan columns and trabeation from former internal colonnades. Surmounted by the clock tower, with circular lantern of Tuscan colonnettes taking entablature, lead dome, ball finial and weathervane. The Cloth Hall was built by Sir John Ramsden in 1766 on a site now occupied by the ABC Cinema, Market Street. It was enlarged in 1780, 1848 and 1864, and pulled down in 1930.
Listing NGR: SE1630916545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419755
- 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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