Gateway
GATEWAY, 13, WILLOW HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313763
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY, 13, WILLOW HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313763
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY, 13, WILLOW HALL LANE
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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:
- GATEWAY, 13, WILLOW HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06550 24189
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE WILLOW HALL LANE SE 0624 and SE 0724 (south side) 10/305 No 13 (Gateway) - GV II Gatehouse now house. Probably mid - late C17, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, formerly having tall ground floor (shortened by raised road level and converted to contain basement); one bay, with single-storey ½-bay on right heightened. Road (north) front: ½-bay has door. Main bay has round arched gateway, chamfered with moulded voussoirs and imposts, now blocked and with mullion window. Above it a moulded cornice on leaf-decorated corbels, breaking forward at ends and centre and having frieze with carved-face keystone. On first floor a double-chamfered window (formerly of 4 or 5 lights) with one mullion and dripmould with decorative stops. Shaped gutter brackets. Roof hipped, with corner blocks for ball finials (removed) and central, C17, shaped finial. Rear: plinth. Tall round-arched gateway has moulded surround, wave-moulded at base on plinths, and imposts; infilled and now with C20 basement window under 3-light flat-faced mullion window. Cornice over gateway as front. On first floor a 4-light, now 2- light, double-chamfered mullion window with decorative stopped dripmould. Left return: on first floor 2 double-chamfered mullion windows, formerly 4-light, left one blocked, with decorative-stopped hoodmoulds. This was the gatehouse to Willow Hall (demolished) built by Samuel King of King Cross. The cornices over the gateways are similar in style to those above fireplaces of other houses in the area eg that in Nos 43-47 Hollins Lane (qv) dated 1688.
Listing NGR: SE0655024189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339444
- 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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