15-21 Market Place
15-21, Market Place
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313286
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 15-21 Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- 15-21, Market Place
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313286
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 15-21 Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15-21, Market Place
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:
- 15-21, Market Place
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45624 21895
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 4521 NE
8/37
PONTEFRACT
MARKET PLACE (south-east side)
Nos 15 to 21 (odd)
(Formerly listed as 'No 13, No 15, No 17, No 19, No 21')
5.11.68
GV
II
Terrace of four houses, now a public house, restaurant and shops. Early-mid C18 with late C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Three tall storeys and seven bays. Central entrance and through-passages to outer bays. Ground floor has semi-circular-headed arches to through-passages with rusticated jambs, radiating voussoirs and dropped keystones, arch to right is wider. Both arches have narrow cornice over. Recessed central entrance is flanked by C20 shop fronts. To first and second floors, left-hand corner has a rusticated pilaster strip. First floor has seven narrow flush-frame plate-glass sash windows over moulded sill band with projecting bracketed sills. Above, seven similar, smaller windows over similar band and sills with later moulded gutter below. Early C20 egg-and-dart and moulded cornice. Steeply pitched roof with swept eaves. No stacks.
Listing NGR: SE4562421895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342676
- 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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