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Latitude: 53.6821 / 53°40'55"N
Longitude: -1.5007 / 1°30'2"W
OS Eastings: 433073
OS Northings: 420746
OS Grid: SE330207
Mapcode National: GBR KTYV.WS
Mapcode Global: WHC9Z.XQJ2
Plus Code: 9C5WMFJX+VP
Entry Name: 51-55 Westgate
Listing Date: 1 February 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1273227
English Heritage Legacy ID: 445850
ID on this website: 101273227
Location: 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 All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Bank building
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SE 3320 NW
2/271
WESTGATE (South Side)
Nos. 51 to 55 (odd)
(Formerly listed as Nos. 51 to 55 (odd) (Barclays' Bank and The Black Bull Tavern))
GV
II
1772 with adaptions. Four storey, nine-bay house with slightly projecting, pedimented five-bay centre. Red brick, all but pediment now stuccoed with incised lines and quoins. Banded first floor. Voussoir patterns over windows, the second floor keys supporting third-floor band. Stone modillion eaves and pediment cornices. Blank roundel and carved foliage in pediment.
Replaced sash windows, all with stone cills; architraves on third floor. First floor centre a narrow Venetian window with Ionic order. Swag moulding below second floor centre window; and heavy wheat moulding frame on third floor. (these mouldings look circa 1900). Giant, quoined round-arched recess holds these centre windows. Added canted bays, with bulbous lead roofs, cover outer pairs of first floor windows. Pale terra-cotta ground floor with pilasters and entablature; and a central door arch in classical frame. Wood public house front at left.
Listing NGR: SE3307320745
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