NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY

NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, HALL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376809
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY
Statutory Address:: NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, HALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376809
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY
Statutory Address 1:: NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, HALL LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTHOWRAM HALL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, 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:: SE1108127554

Details

SE 12 NW 679/5/10258

HALIFAX HALL LANE, Northowram Northowram Hall and attached conservatory

II

Country house, attached conservatory. c1700, remodelled and with additions c1863 and c1895. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs. Coped ridge stacks. Plinth, lintel and sill bands, angle pilasters, eaves cornice and blocking course with finials. 2 storeys; 6 x 8 windows. L-plan. Windows are mainly wooden cross casements, those to the main fronts with leaded glazing and moulded ashlar surrounds. Entrance front has a central portico with rusticated columns and crested parapet, covering a round arched door with fanlight. On each side, a round arched window. Above, a cartouche, flanked by single windows. Beyond, canted bay windows, 2 storeys, 3 lights. To right, side range with 2 windows on each floor. Right return, 8 windows, has a central gabled porch and above it, a round arched window. To left a projecting end bay. Below it, a single storey projection, 2 windows, with flat roof behind parapet. Attached at right angles, a round carriage arch with round topped shouldered gable. Left return, 5 windows, has a projecting central bay and regular fenestration. Beyond, rear wing, 2 storeys. Across the front of the rear wing, a wooden lean-to glasshouse with round arched leaded lights. At the right end, a polygonal sun room with pyramidal slate roof. To left, a glazed corridor, 5 bays, leading to a large conservatory. Conservatory, 9 bays, has a stepped ashlar plinth and wooden structure with elliptical arched lights and toplights. Hipped clerestorey roof. Central glazed double door with glazed pediment. Interior: entrance hall has a stone cross-mullioned glazed screen. Tudor arched wooden arcade, 3 bays, giving access to splay footed open well stair and landing, with twist balusters. Landing has sham timbr framing. To right, an open-plan room with panelled dado and sham timber framing. Ashlar and brick fireplace Renaissance Revival style, with turned and panelled balusters and strapwork overmantel. Ground floor room to left has oval panelled ceiling with foliage frieze and enriched cornice. Wooden fireplace, late C19, with panelled overmantel, flanked by glazed bookcases. Corresponding room to right has a timber framed recess enclosing the door, and Tudor arched ashlar fireplace with Renaissance Revival overmantel.

Listing NGR: SE1108127554

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 468938
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.