5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD

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Former farm outbuildings, late C18, altered late C20, in stone with some brick. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300562
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD
Statutory Address:: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300562
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Feb-2010
List Entry Name:: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD
Statutory Address 1:: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD

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:: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, THE COURTYARD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Woolley
National Grid Reference:: SE3212513147

Details

WOOLLEY

1666/7/137 THE COURTYARD 22-NOV-66 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (Formerly listed as: NEW ROAD OUTBUILDING AT BEECH FARM)

II Former farm outbuildings, late C18, altered late C20, in stone with some brick.

EXTERIOR:The buildings form a U shape, with its main front to the north-east facing the former farmhouse. One range runs parallel to and behind the front range, with a linking block between it and the right hand end of the front range. The buildings are of large well-coursed stone to the central tower, flanked by coursed rubble with some brick to the rear, and stone slate roofs. The main range (Nos 9, 10 and 11) has two storeys with a central three storey dovecote tower with quoins. The central tower has a blocked elliptical-arched cart entry with two inserted windows above. There is a second floor band with a Venetian window above of which only the central arched light is glazed. The two storey flanking blocks have four-bays of windows to the left and five to the right. The original openings have deep lintels and projecting sills, and the inserted windows match those. There is a front facing gable to the right and a hipped gable to the left. At the rear are stone quoins, and the central tower has a blocked cart entry as at the front, with two windows above. The second floor is of brick and has a Diocletian window with a lowered central light. The flanking bays match those at the front. To the right an original semi-circular arched doorway is now a window with an inserted doorway to the left and a four-light flat faced mullioned window above. There is an inserted external end stack on the right end.

The linking range (Nos 7 and 8) attached at the left end at right angles is an L-shaped building with a projecting bay to the left. It has three bays of three-light flat-faced mullioned windows and an inserted central doorway. The first floor window in the projecting bay is a dormer.

Attached at right angles to the left of this range is a further range (Nos 5 and 6). It is single storey with a pantile roof to the front and slate to the rear. The pantile roof is lower with clerestory windows above. There are seven bays of stone columns blocked with a recessed wooden wall with windows. Internally a stone wall runs longitudinally through the range, probably formerly an external wall. The range is said to have been animal sheds. It is included for group value.

HISTORY: Nos 5 to 11 The Courtyard, Woolley were formerly part of a range of farm buildings belonging to Beech Farm (now the Old Courthouse, Listed grade II). They date to the late C18 and are shown on the 1854 OS First Edition map in more or less their present form. In the late C20 the buildings were converted to form seven domestic dwellings.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION Nos 5 to 11 The Courtyard, Woolley, Wakefield, part of a former range of farm outbuildings, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architecture: the range, which faces the former farmhouse, has an impressive frontage with architectural pretensions in its central tower and Venetian window * Planning: the buildings are a good example of a planned farmstead of the late C18 * Intactness: despite the conversion to domestic dwellings, the buildings retain their character and a number of original features, and new elements are largely in character.

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Legacy System number:: 342442
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.