Crow Nest House in Crow Nest Park

CROW NEST HOUSE IN CROW NEST PARK, CEMETERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300609
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Crow Nest House in Crow Nest Park
Statutory Address:
CROW NEST HOUSE IN CROW NEST PARK, CEMETERY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300609
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Crow Nest House in Crow Nest Park
Statutory Address 1:
CROW NEST HOUSE IN CROW NEST PARK, CEMETERY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CROW NEST HOUSE IN CROW NEST PARK, CEMETERY 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 23354 21331

Details

DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD SE 22 SW West Town (Dewsbury) 2/20 Crow Nest House in Crow Nest Park

G.V. II

Large house. Early C18. Ashlar with rusticated quoins. Hipped, bitumen covered roof with ashlar stacks. Three storeys, 5 bays, the centre 3 crowned by pediment. Sash windows in architraves. Central door with deep rectangular fanlight, architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Band over ground floor. To the left and right is a single bay addition, facade only, of 2 storeys, with cornice and blocking course. The one to right has been built behind. (Later additions further to right, not included in the item.) Later 5-light canted bay to left side, and recent extension. Rear elevation has central door with staircase window over. To right, one 8-light mullioned and transomed window with king mullion, and to left a later canted bay. To 1st floor two 10-light mullioned and transomed window, all double chamfered and with hood mould. Three sashes to 2nd floor.

Interior: central staircase in fourflights, with corniced treads, ramped, deep-moulded wooden rail, turned and carved balusters with gadrooning typical of work of 'York School of carvers'. Slightly simpler detailing to upper flights. Panelled, ramped staircase dado. Original panelling to two 1st floor rooms consisting of tall single, moulded raised panels above a dado. In one room the over- mantel breaks into the ceiling cornice consisting of a cyma moulding with leaf enrichment. The fireplace is marble of early C19 date. In the other room the fireplace is C19 set at an angle. 6-panel doors, one in walnut, though many are C19 replacements. Downstairs decoration appears to be mainly C19 with pedimented doorcases, panelled shutters, and panelled main ceiling. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE2335421331

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Legacy System number:
340704
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

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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.

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