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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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