Description

PONTEFRACT ROPERGATE
SE 4521 NW
(south-east side)
7/51
Nos 37-41 (odd)

GV II

3 houses, now 2 shops with offices above. Late C18 with mid C19 alterations.
Painted brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Ground
floor: central segmental archway with ashlar voussoirs and fluted keystone;
mid-C19 shop fronts, with plate-glass windows, inverted pilasters with capitals
of small volutes, deep friezes, and lead-topped cornices, in 1st and 4th bays;
4-pane sash windows in 2nd bay; blocked doorway with wedge lintel in 5th bay.
First floor: central tripartite window, with 4-pane -sash flanked by 2-pane
sashes, all under lintel with keyed round arch interrupting wedge lintel, giving
Venetian window effect. Second floor: half-size 4-pane sashes. Windows have
projecting ashlar sills and voussoired wedge lintels. Shaped kneelers (that to
right broken), ashlar coping. Brick stacks at ends and flanking central bay.
Rear: C20 rendering and other alterations. On left return of carriageway is an
ashlar plaque with early-cl9 lettering 'Smyth Street'. The housing in the street
bore a plaque commemorating Pontefract's MP, John Smyth, who was MP 1783-1806,
and an advocate of Reform.

Listing NGR: SE4545521724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428807

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