51-55 Westgate

51-55, Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273227
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:: 51-55 Westgate
Statutory Address:: 51-55, Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273227
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:: 51-55 Westgate
Statutory Address 1:: 51-55, Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 51-55, Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW

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 33073 20745

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 3320 NW 2/271

WESTGATE (South Side) Nos. 51 to 55 (odd)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 51 to 55 (odd) (Barclays' Bank and The Black Bull Tavern))

GV II

1772 with adaptions. Four storey, nine-bay house with slightly projecting, pedimented five-bay centre. Red brick, all but pediment now stuccoed with incised lines and quoins. Banded first floor. Voussoir patterns over windows, the second floor keys supporting third-floor band. Stone modillion eaves and pediment cornices. Blank roundel and carved foliage in pediment.

Replaced sash windows, all with stone cills; architraves on third floor. First floor centre a narrow Venetian window with Ionic order. Swag moulding below second floor centre window; and heavy wheat moulding frame on third floor. (these mouldings look circa 1900). Giant, quoined round-arched recess holds these centre windows. Added canted bays, with bulbous lead roofs, cover outer pairs of first floor windows. Pale terra-cotta ground floor with pilasters and entablature; and a central door arch in classical frame. Wood public house front at left.

Listing NGR: SE3307320745

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Legacy System number:: 445850
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.