Ackworth House
ACKWORTH HOUSE, PONTEFRACT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313256
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Ackworth House
- Statutory Address:
- ACKWORTH HOUSE, PONTEFRACT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313256
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Ackworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ACKWORTH HOUSE, PONTEFRACT 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:
- ACKWORTH HOUSE, PONTEFRACT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44117 17489
Details
ACKWORTH PONTEFRACT ROAD SE41NW (east side) Low Ackworth 2/18 Ackworth House 25.3.1968 - II
Large house, now boarding house to Ackworth School Later C18, enlarged in later C19. Sandstone (north front rendered) and coursed squared sandstone; slate roof. Double pile plan. North front of 3 storeys and 5 bays, in Classical style; symmetrical; pedimented 3-bay centre has central doorway with panelled door, architrave of Tuscan semi-columns with triglyph frieze and segmental pediment and narrow side windows; a small window to the right, and a 2-light sashed window on each side; outer bays have sashes without glazing bars; 1st floor has 12-pane sashes linked by a sill-band, and that in the centre has an architrave with cornice; 2nd floor has low 6-pane sashes; the pediment contains raised decoration consisting of a floral medallion beneath a swag, and has an urn on the apex. Low-pitched hipped roof with 2 ridge chimney stacks. The added rear range, of 2 storeys,with symmetrical south front, has an open-pedimented centre flanked by full-height canted bays; a broad lst-floor band carried round the whole; the centre has a large tripartite sashed window at ground floor, and at 1st floor a tall Venetian- style window with balustrade, the flanking bays each have three 12-pane sashes on each floor, with raised sills, and hipped roofs. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE4411717489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342618
- 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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