Woodthorpe Hall
WOODTHORPE HALL, WOODTHORPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273066
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Woodthorpe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, WOODTHORPE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273066
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Woodthorpe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, WOODTHORPE LANE
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:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, WOODTHORPE LANE
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:
- SE3409716931
Details
1.
5115
SE 31 NW
13/6
14.7.53
WOODTHORPE LANE
(South-West Side)
Woolgreaves
Woodthorpe Hall
II
2.
C17 house with alterations. 2-storeys. Central, 3-bay, hip-roofed block
with one-bay side wings. Coursed, squared, smoothed stone. Entrance front
has cornice band continuous with gable coping of one-bay outer sections; and
parapet before stone-flagged roof. Blank 2-storey right extension. Stone
stacks on ridge and on gable peaks. Early C19 sash windows with glazing bars
in raised stone surrounds. (Garden front has traces of C17 window frames).
Tripartite ground floor windows flank 6-panel door in prostyle Tuscan porch.
2-bay west return in similar style with repairs to stonework. Tripartite
window to extension on garden front. Interior woodwork mostly early C19.
One C17 fireplace and a 3-panel ceiling with deep cornices, circa 1700. Also
a wood ribbed quadrant in one corner of drawing room suggests a fan vault.
Exposed heavy chamfered beam and joists in dining room and elsewhere. Wall
running west from south-west corner, (building behind it demolished) probably
C18.
Listing NGR: SE3409716931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446035
- 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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