Description

PONTEFRACT FRONT STREET
SE 4521 NW
(north side)
7/23 Court House (formerly
listed as County
29.7.50 Police Offices Session
House, under Corn
Market)

GV II

Court house, now partly offices. 1807. By Charles Watson. Ashlar, horizontally
rusticated to main front, with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and 9 bays with
lower two-storey single bay to left. Plinth. Two outer bays to either side
advanced and 3 central bays with full-height Ionic portico columns on deep plinths,
entablature with plain frieze and pediment above with Royal achievement. Central
doorcase had double panelled door below plain overlight in doorcase with consoled
cornice. To either side there are 4 tall sash windows with glazing bars, plus
similar to left-hand bay. Above, 9 similar sashes with projecting sills and
a fixed 9-pane window in partially-blocked opening to left-hand bay. Moulded
stone cornice with blocking course, except to left-hand bay which has plain eaves.
Hipped roofs throughout. Rear elevation has full-height canted bays to either
side and wide 5-bay shallow bow between. Steps to central doorcase with panelled
jambs, consoled cornice, C20 double-panelled door and plain overlight. Tall
sashes with glazing bars to either side and to the canted bays. 11 similar sashes
above with projecting sills. Cornice and blocking course as front. To either
side of central bow are original partly-fluted hopper-heads to downpipes. Interior
completely remodelled c.1960.
Derek Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (1978), p. 334.

Listing NGR: SE4535521962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480288

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014