COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD

COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD, CORN MARKET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313282
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD
Statutory Address:: COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD, CORN MARKET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313282
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD
Statutory Address 1:: COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD, CORN MARKET

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:: COTTAGES IN SWALES YARD, CORN MARKET

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District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 45431 21888

Details

PONTEFRACT CORN MARKET SE 4521 NW (south-west side, off) 7/18 Cottages in Swales Yard 29.7.50 (formerly listed under Beast Fair as Cottage range extending South Westwards from rear of (Benefit Boot Co's) premises) GV II

Range of 3 or 4 cottages. Probably C16 or C17, of 4 builds, altered in C18 and Cl9. Of timber-framed construction, mainly rendered, with stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, the first floors all jettied. Range immediately behind Corn Market building: 2 boarded-up ground-floor openings; 2 jetty beam ends; on first floor, paired 8-pane sash windows to left, sash window to right; steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof, remains of stack to left end. Beyond this is the start of a longer range with lower roofs, starting with a narrow bay, possibly that of a chimney stack, with a boarded-up door, above which is one jetty beam end, supported on an inserted outer post, and a first-floor side- sliding sash window; Welsh slate roof and hints of a ridge stack. The range continues with 2 boarded up ground floor windows, 4 jetty beam ends, 1 first floor side-sliding sash window and a smaller opening; stone slate roof. The rearmost range is the longest, and its jetty is at a different level; 3 doors and 2 ground-floor windows, 4 jetty beams ends, first-floor openings rendered over, Welsh slate roof with 3 sky lights; brick stack near eaves to right of centre; shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to left. Left return: part of corner post visible on first floor;C18 brickwork in Flemish bond to gable end. Beyond the range are the remains of stables,, partly collapsed. Rear; ground floor of ashlar sandstone; first floor of close studding, the studs with carpenter's numbering. Interior: each of the cottages seems to have had 2 rooms on each floor with a tightly-winding wooden staircase in a rear corner; one kitchen has a late C19 set-pot and stone sink with remains of cast-iron kitchen range, and the adjoining parlour has part of an early C18 stone fire suround; roof of collared principal rafter trusses. Recorded by the West Yorkshire Archaeological Unit.

Listing NGR: SE4543121888

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Legacy System number:: 342657
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.