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1-11, Railway Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Huddersfield, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6476 / 53°38'51"N

Longitude: -1.7839 / 1°47'2"W

OS Eastings: 414379

OS Northings: 416804

OS Grid: SE143168

Mapcode National: GBR HVZ8.L5

Mapcode Global: WHCB1.KLQ2

Plus Code: 9C5WJ6X8+2C

Entry Name: 1-11, Railway Street

Listing Date: 29 September 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1231474

English Heritage Legacy ID: 406616

ID on this website: 101231474

Location: Newsome, Kirklees, HD1

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Newsome

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Huddersfield

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Huddersfield St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


RAILWAY STREET
1.
5113
(East Side)
SE 1416 NW 1/44 Nos 1 to 11 (odd)

II GV
2.
1871-2. Architect W H Crossland. Former Ramsden Estate Office. Ashlar.
Hipped slate roofs, some conical. 4 storeys. Traceried parapet, corbelled
out. Moulded strings, that to 1st floor carved with foliage. Nos 1-7 approximately
symmetrical about 2 canted bays. From S to N they have 4 ranges of sashes,
bay, 8 ranges of sashes, bay, 3 ranges of sashes. Corbelled out balcony to
4 central windows of 2nd floor. Doors are set in archways with moulded voussoirs,
marble colonnettes and foliage capitals, closed by elaborate Gothic wrought
iron gates: No 1's is set in a gabled portal with buttress at north end, No
9 and 11's with fanlights pierced by quatrefoils, No 5 and 7's with carved
impost band: hoodmoulds. Windows set in deep moulded reveals and very closely
spaced, 1st floor ones segment-headed, 3rd floor ones round-arched, 1st floor
ones in bays with cusped heads, 3rd floor ones in bays with pointed heads:
above ground floor all windows have polished marble colonnettes with foliage
capitals. Nos 9 and 11 break forward slightly and have pinnacled and gabled
tourelles corbelled out at corners on 3rd floor buttress in centre of ground,
1st and 2nd floors. Fenestration is the same, except it is grouped irregularly:
2 windows in south part, 3 windows in north part. Area with elaborate wrought
iron railings.


Listing NGR: SE1437916804

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