Somervill

SOMERVILL, 4, HUNGERFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1313911
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1978
List Entry Name:
Somervill
Statutory Address:
SOMERVILL, 4, HUNGERFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1313911
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1978
List Entry Name:
Somervill
Statutory Address 1:
SOMERVILL, 4, HUNGERFORD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOMERVILL, 4, HUNGERFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 12721 17731

Details

HUNGERFORD ROAD 1. 5113 (West Side) No 4 (Somerville) SE 1217 27/671 II 2. Mid C19. Hammer dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Bracketed eaves cornice. Moulded string. 3 ranges of sashes, left one breaking forward slightly and crowned by gable with moulded coping and finial. Ground floor has canted bay: round-arched casements (central one has 2 arches with intervening pendant), clustered fluted colonnettes to piers, moulded cornice, openwork parapet with applied cylindrical piers and moulded cornice. 1st floor has Venetian window with moulded surround and sculpted cresting. Central range has door with 4 moulded panels and semi-circular fanlight in moulded surround. Porch on 4 columns taking semi-circular arch with mask in full relief on keystone and elaborate foliage sculpture in spandrels; semi-circular pediment with elaborate foliage sculpture in tympanum. Steps, with quadrant retaining walls and gadrooned urns. 1st floor has round-arched window in moulded frame: tracery composed of 2 intersecting semi-circles with pendant boss at junction. Right hand range has Venetian casement in cable moulded surround, with sculpted cresting. 1st floor sash in moulded surround. North side similar: one canted bay as on east front.

Listing NGR: SE1272117731

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
339994
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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