Stank Hall Barn
STANK HALL BARN, DEWSBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375339
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stank Hall Barn
- Statutory Address:
- STANK HALL BARN, DEWSBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375339
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Stank Hall Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANK HALL BARN, DEWSBURY 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:
- STANK HALL BARN, DEWSBURY ROAD
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 28535 29139
Details
LEEDS
SE22NE DEWSBURY ROAD, Beeston 714-1/13/527 (East side (off)) 19/10/51 Stank Hall Barn (Formerly Listed as: DEWSBURY ROAD, Beeston Barn immed N of Stank Hall Farmhouse & New Hall, incl Major Greathead's Chapel)
GV II*
Also known as: Major Greathead's Chapel DEWSBURY ROAD Beeston. Barn and chapel. Late C15-early C16 for the Beeston family; C17 cross wing and alterations for the Hodgson family. Millstone grit and delph-stone, timber-frame, stone slate roofs. 7 bays, wide opposing barn doors to eaves, slit vents. 2-storey cross wing at S end: 4- and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned windows, hoodmoulds, rebuilt doorways on W side, central upper floor ogee-arched doorway, blocked, on S side, hoodmould with scrolled stops; flanking 2-light mullioned windows, restored. INTERIOR: barn has oak aisle posts, king-post roof trusses. Tree-ring analysis gives a date of 1448-1490 for the felling of the trees used in the construction of the timber frame. The cross-wing is known as Major Greathead's Chapel. The building has been extensively studied, see WYAS Report. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service Historic Buildings Survey: Wrathmell S & Weldrake H: Stank Hall Barn).
Listing NGR: SE2853529139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wrathmell, S, Weldrake, H, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service Historic Buildings Survey in Stank Hall Barn, ()
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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