LONGLEY OLD HALL

LONGLEY OLD HALL, 187 AND 189, LONGLEY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288214
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: LONGLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: LONGLEY OLD HALL, 187 AND 189, LONGLEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288214
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: LONGLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: LONGLEY OLD HALL, 187 AND 189, LONGLEY

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:: LONGLEY OLD HALL, 187 AND 189, LONGLEY

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 15424 15015

Details

LONGLEY 1. 5113 Nos 187 and 189 (Longley Old Hall) SE 1515 39/23 3.3.52. II* GV 2. C17, but inaccurately restored in 1885. Shown on Senior's map of Almondbury Parish 1634. Former home of the Ramsden family, lords of the manors of Huddersfield and Almondbury, until 1717, and for this reason excluded from the sale of the Ramsden Estate to Huddersfield Corporation in 1921. It is either a replacement or a rebuilding of a mediaeval house, since it came to the Ramsdens by marriage early in the C16. Hammer-dressed stone. Hipped stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 4 gables dating from 1885. 1st floor has two 4-light, one 3-light, and one 2-light stone mullioned windows (of which the 4-light window at the east end had 6 lights before 1885). Ground floor has two 4-light and one 6-light stone mullioned windows, and door with monolithic depressed arch. Ground floor windows have hoodmoulds, and mullions are of tapering section. Rear has 2 gables which may be original, and one timber-framed gable which is not.

Listing NGR: SE1544215054

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Legacy System number:: 340152
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.