53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272883
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272883
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
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:
- 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE
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 33132 21000
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/10/2012
5115
SE 3320 NW-SE 3321
2/117-4/117
NORTHGATE
Nos 53 and 55
(Formerly listed as No 53 (The Card Shop))
II*
Two shops with accommodation above. Late C15, 1596, early C18, early C19 altered,
c1930. Timber framed, red brick, rock faced ashlar and render. Slate and concrete
tile roofs. Two brick stacks. Five bays, 3 storeys. East front has 2 C20 shop
fronts with recessed central door to left and side doors to right. Above C20 rock
faced ashlar, with 3 C20 casements, above again 5 openings, 2 blind, the 3 to the
right with C20 casements. Gill's yard, south front, under archway, has a fine early
C18 door surround, with cabled frieze and fine 6 panel door. Rear front, to
Gill's yard, 2 storey. Rendered with a central doorway, with double plank doors,
and to the left a C20 window, above 2 C20 casements. Interior of No 53 retains some
late C15 timber framing, including a chamfered spine beam and joists with original
painted chevron decoration. The ground floor has the remains of a moulded stone
fireplace, with a complete fireplace above. The upper floor retains an oak panelled
frieze and an elaborate Elizabethan plaster ceiling with the remains of a
contemporary frieze. Plus a single close-studded wall and most of its original roof
including 2 king post trusses. No 55 has the remains of a C16 ceiling with deeply
moulded cross beams behind an early C19 staircase and a contemporary fireplace.
Listing NGR: SE3313221000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447272
- 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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