The Old Clergy House
THE OLD CLERGY HOUSE, 1 2 AND 3, STOCKS WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273981
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Clergy House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CLERGY HOUSE, 1 2 AND 3, STOCKS WALK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273981
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Clergy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CLERGY HOUSE, 1 2 AND 3, STOCKS WALK
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:
- THE OLD CLERGY HOUSE, 1 2 AND 3, STOCKS WALK
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 16688 15048
Details
STOCKS WALK 1. 5113 (East Side) Almondbury The Old Clergy House Nos 1, 2 and 3 SE 1615 40/1244 II 2. 1898. Architect Edgar Wood. Hammer dressed stone. Pitched stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Gabled wing at west end with coping on cut kneelers, and chimney corbelled out from its east wall. Wooden porch in re-entrant angle. 2 shallow canted bays with parapets carried up above eaves line. Otherwise south front has two 3-light windows on 1st floor, one 4-light window on ground floor and one side light to door. West wing has one 4-light and one (much smaller) 2-light window on 1st floor, and one 4-light twin-transomed window on ground floor. West side has 4 raked buttresses and one blocked door with semi-circular stone hood below a 2-light fanlight (cf Norman Terrace, Lidget Street, Londley). Rear has another chimney corbelled at 1st floor level, and a canted staircase projection with hipped roof. All windows have square-sectioned mullions, flush with wall surface, and ground floor windows in bays have transoms as well. All are casements with lead glazing bars and ornamental iron fastenings. Interior of No 2. Diagonally placed fireplace with painted bronze surround embossed with stylised roses and inscription in Art Nouveau lettering "Parva Domus Magna Quies." Fanlight and sidelight of the inner (arched) door have good stained glass with twin bird motif.
Listing NGR: SE1668815048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416599
- 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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