228 and 230, Leeds Road
228 and 230, Leeds Road, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3LS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313491
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1964
- List Entry Name:
- 228 and 230, Leeds Road
- Statutory Address:
- 228 and 230, Leeds Road, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3LS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313491
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1964
- List Entry Name:
- 228 and 230, Leeds Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 228 and 230, Leeds Road, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3LS
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:
- 228 and 230, Leeds Road, Lofthouse, Wakefield, WF3 3LS
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:
- SE 33286 26124
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 April 2021 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SE32NW
5/63
LOFTHOUSE
LEEDS ROAD WF3 (east side)
Nos. 228 and 230
(Formerly listed as Nos, 228 and 230 (Pymont House and Pymont Cottage))
5th June 1964
II*
Farmhouse, subsequently two cottages. Mid C17, altered. Handmade red brick in stretcher bond, stone slate roof with chimney of modern brick. U-plan: lobby-entry hall range with integral cross-wing to the right, separately-roofed cross-wing to left, outshut to rear. Two storeys; porch in angle with right wing has depressed-arched chamfered outer doorway, over this a large rectangular sandstone panel with heavily worn carving (see RCHM for former details), a stepped parapet, and in the left side a recessed window with hollow-moulded brick surround; at first floor above the porch, a similar window with rendered surround; to the left, a large altered window on each floor, and left of each another small window, the upper altered; ridge chimney of diagonal flues. Re-entrant of left wing has similar small window with hollow moulded surround, gable of this wing has modern enlarged window on each floor the upper with a stone dripband over it; gable of right wing has large inserted casement on each floor. Return wall of this wing has inter alia a six-light window with mullions and transom of rendered brick.
Rear: catslide roof carried down to single-storey height.
Interior: contains a complete Jacobean staircase, single flight return with turned balusters and square newels topped with finials. Two important plaster ceilings survive. Much timber framing is visible including evidence of a possible aisled hall. This hall also contains an inglenook with chamfered bressemer and stone flagged floor. Two brick four-centred arched fireplaces survive. The house retains many of its original doors as well as much of its original roof structure.
Reference: RCHM p.204.
Listing NGR: SE3328626124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342063
- 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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