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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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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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