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Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School

A Grade II Listed Building in Wakefield North, Wakefield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6868 / 53°41'12"N

Longitude: -1.5036 / 1°30'12"W

OS Eastings: 432881

OS Northings: 421266

OS Grid: SE328212

Mapcode National: GBR KTYT.83

Mapcode Global: WHC9Z.WL5G

Plus Code: 9C5WMFPW+PH

Entry Name: Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School

Listing Date: 30 March 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1258722

English Heritage Legacy ID: 445558

ID on this website: 101258722

Location: St Johns, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1

County: Wakefield

Electoral Ward/Division: Wakefield North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wakefield

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Wakefield St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


1. WENTWORTH STREET
5115 (West Side)

Former Wentworth House
at Girls' High School

SE 3221 3/248 30.3.71.

II

2.
Substantial merchant's house of 1802-5. 3-storeys and blank basement, seven
windows. Three'central bays project slightly. Red brick with stone basement,
1st floor cill band, modillion eaves cornice. Gauged flat brick arches and
stone cills to altered windows, mainly sashes though one or two are modern
casements. Wide flight of five stone steps to door with plain fanlight in
architrave with impost blocks, the whole in prostyle Roman Doric porch with
segmental pediment. House built for John Pemberton Heywood, barrister and
son of a local cloth merchant.


Listing NGR: SE3288121266

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