Description

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ST9970 CASTLE WALK 755-1/5/20 (North side) 08/07/76 No.28 Castlefield House and attached front walls (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE WALK (North side) No.28 Castlefield House, Flats Nos.1-4)

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House, now nursing home. c1830s. For Henry Alworth Merriweather, 1780-1864, Town Clerk of the City of London. Squared, coursed limestone, slate cross-gabled roof, with lateral and axial ridge ashlar stacks. Picturesque Tudor Revival style. Irregular plan of shallow wings projecting from an axial range. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range to front. Entrance front has a crenellated porch with diagonal buttresses and a Tudor-arched doorway, set in the angle with a gabled left-hand wing, with kneelers, coping and finial; at the right-hand end is an ashlar crenellated wing with diagonal buttresses. Tudor-arched windows with label moulds, some with good original intersecting cast-iron glazing bars with small panes in sashes and casements, and a 4-light canted 2-storey bay to the left-hand wing. Tall octagonal stacks with crenellated cornices: a central pair, triple to the right, and 4 to an axial ridge stack on the left-hand wing. The E elevation has a similar gable to the front, and a large conservatory with coped parapet round and gableted pinnacles set to the side. A pair of gables with turned finials faces the road, the right-hand one with a canted oriel, and the W elevation has 2 further gables, with an oriel and crocket finial in the left-hand one and a pair of stacks above blind windows to the right. A tall parapet pierced with trefoil openings extends round the E and S sides. INTERIOR: altered; details include a good stone open-well stair to the central full-height stair hall with a curtail and inlaid star, and ramped rail; Tudor-arched doors with quatrefoil panels; bedrooms and stair hall with shallow false vaults; flagged cellars. Remains of a well. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall with crenellated parapet, lancet windows, and a Tudor-arched doorway in an ashlar panel extends along the S front. A relatively early and imaginative use of the Tudor Revival style.

Listing NGR: ST9954170962

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• Wikidata Q26538830

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings