Rylestone House
Rylstone House, 66 and 68, Pontefract Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355072
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rylestone House
- Statutory Address:
- Rylstone House, 66 and 68, Pontefract Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355072
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rylestone House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rylstone House, 66 and 68, Pontefract 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.
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:
- Rylstone House, 66 and 68, Pontefract Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44047 17804
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE41NW
2/11
ACKWORTH
High Ackworth
PONTEFRACT ROAD (east side)
Nos. 66 and 68 (Rylstone House)
II
Farmhouse, now two dwellings. Late C17, altered. Coursed squared sandstone, composition tile roof. Long three-unit range, gable to road; single-depth plan, with modern additions to rear. Two and three storeys under one roof, with six first-floor windows. The left half (No 68) has a modern porch and bay window under a pentice roof, a vertical-rectangular window to the left, three similar windows at first floor (all these now top-hung casements with glazing bars), and at second floor a small round-headed window with Y-tracery and two small two-light casements; raised verge with ridged coping and kneelers. The left gable has an extruded chimney stack (breaking the coping in front of the ridge), at ground floor a modern flat-roofed bay window, at second floor level to the rear of the stack remains of a mullioned window with hoodmould and a blocked attic window, The right-hand half (No. 66) has a Tuscan porch in the centre, a modern canted bay to the right, a vertical-rectangular top-hung casement with glazing bars to the left, two similar windows at first floor; in addition in vertical alignment at the junction of the two houses, three small round-headed windows, the first and third with Y-tracery.
Interior: No. 66 has a chamfered spine-beam, a large segmental-arched brick fireplace beneath a timber pad (which may have been a bressummer to an earlier and larger fireplace); in the former rear wall, a Tudor-arched doorway with chamfered surround; interior of No 68 not inspected, but may contain features of interest. (No 70, attached at left end of range, is not included in the item).
Listing NGR: SE4404717804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342611
- 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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