NUMBERS 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE

4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE, CALVERLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313154
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1964
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE, CALVERLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313154
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1964
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE, CALVERLEY ROAD

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:: 4 AND 5 BENTLEY SQUARE, CALVERLEY ROAD

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE3619928363

Details

SE 32 NE 6/70 5th June 1964

ROTHWELL CALVERLEY ROAD LS26 (north side) Oulton Nos. 4 and 5 Bentley Square (No. 5 formerly listed as Bentley Cottage)

II

Farmhouse, now two dwellings. C17 or earlier; altered. Stone with roughcast render, stone slate roof. L-plan: linear 3-unit range with rear outshut (No.4) with receding wing at right-hand end (No. 5). Two storeys; 1st unit (left end of No.4) formerly byre, altered and incorporated in house; remainder has C20 bay windows at ground floor and door between, all under mono-pitched stone slate roof; blocked window above door, and C20 casements at 1st floor; stone copings to left gable, ridge chimney and 2 other chimneys behind ridge. Wing (No.5) has stone gable coping with kneelers, a large C20 casement on each floor of the gable end and similar casement in the 2-bay return wall, a door at the junction of the bays; 2 ridge chimneys. (Modern addition to the rear not included in the item).

Interior: altered, but No. 4 has timber-framed arcade partition between housepart and outshut in 2nd bay: 2 posts exposed, with high stone stylobates, arcade plate, and angle-braces, with light studs on a rail beneath the arcade plate; and arched brick fireplace (restored); No. 5 (wing) has exposed king-post roof truss, but is otherwise altered. History: birthplace of Richard Bentley (1662-1742), scholar and divine; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1700-34.

Listing NGR: SE3619928363

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Legacy System number:: 342093
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.