Holt's Cottage
HOLT'S COTTAGE, 30, BELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313252
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Holt's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLT'S COTTAGE, 30, BELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313252
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Holt's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLT'S COTTAGE, 30, BELL LANE
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:
- HOLT'S COTTAGE, 30, BELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4361116387
Details
SE41NW
2/4
26.4.1974
ACKWORTH
BELL LANE
(north side)
No 30 (Holt's Cottage)
II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17, with later addition to rear;
altered. Coursed sandstone blocks, stone slate roof, brick chimney. Three-
unit lobby-entry plan. Two storeys plus attic; present openings in
symmetrical relationship but offset to the right: doorway with chamfered
surround at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays (protected by modern wooden porch),
flanked by 2 square windows on each floor, all with plain surrounds and 12-
pane top-hung casements, and those at ground floor with pseudo-shutters; to
the left, 1st bay has remains of blocked window at ground floor. Gable
copings with kneelers, ridge chimney in line with door. Left gable wall has
inserted openings at ground floor (under modern pentice), former 2-light
mullioned windows to 1st floor and attic, the lower lacking the mullion and
the upper blocked, both with straight dripstones and the upper with a raised
chamfered sill (perhaps a pigeon perch). Added rear wing, probably early C19
and apparently formerly 2 cottages, not of special interest.
Interior: chamfered spine beams in 1st and 2nd bays; back-to-back rectangular
fireplaces, that in the housebody formerly furnished with a spit suspended
from a rail still attached to the beam above.
Listing NGR: SE4361116387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342604
- 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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