Armitage Bridge House
ARMITAGE BRIDGE HOUSE, ARMITAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291073
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Armitage Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- ARMITAGE BRIDGE HOUSE, ARMITAGE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04219/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291073
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Armitage Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARMITAGE BRIDGE HOUSE, ARMITAGE ROAD
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:
- ARMITAGE BRIDGE HOUSE, ARMITAGE ROAD
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 13655 13452
Details
ARMITAGE ROAD 1. 5113 Armitage Bridge SE 1313 47/128 Armitage Bridge House II 2. Early or mid C19. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Moulded eaves cornice. Blocking course. 1st floor sill band. 5 ranges of sashes with glazing bars, central one breaking forward slightly. One storey porch projection: 2 fluted Ionic columns, full entablature and blocking course. One-storey wing to west, with moulded cornice and blocking course. Lower 2 storey wing to east: 3 ranges of sashes. Extension further east: one-storey, with 3-bay arcaded basement, serving as cartshed to stable yard; moulded eaves cornice; blocking course; one sash and one tripartite sash. 2 conservatories with wooden glazing bars, one at either end of rear elevation. Although plain, this elevation looks particularly fine at a distance, looking down the Holme Valley. Interior: although dilapidated, this is a fine specimen of early C19 interior decoration, with good neo-classical plaster cornices and wooden door surrounds. The 2 best rooms are in the south-east and south-west corners of the ground floor. Both have shallow segmental vaults, the south-east one quadripartite, with ribs and an anthemion centrepiece. This room also has a shallow recess on each side, framed by 2 pilasters with anthemion-ornamented capitals, and roundels on the entablature. Marble chimneypiece with 2 free-standing fluted Greek Doric columns. Hall has 2-bay arcade with fluted Tuscan columns and moulded voussoirs. Late C19 staircase with elaborate wooden balusters. Room in the west wing has a coved plaster ceiling.
Listing NGR: SE1365513452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339476
- 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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