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Latitude: 53.601 / 53°36'3"N
Longitude: -1.9266 / 1°55'35"W
OS Eastings: 404953
OS Northings: 411604
OS Grid: SE049116
Mapcode National: GBR GVZS.PW
Mapcode Global: WHB91.CRS8
Plus Code: 9C5WJ32F+99
Entry Name: Mechanics Institute
Listing Date: 7 February 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274926
English Heritage Legacy ID: 413880
ID on this website: 101274926
Location: Marsden, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD7
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Colne Valley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Marsden
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Marsden St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Mechanics' institute
SE 0411 PEEL STREET
Marsden
14/265
Mechanics Institute
7.2.73
- II
1860. Mechanics Institute by John Hogg of Halifax. Hammer dressed stone with
ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof with frieze of moulded bracketed eaves
cornice. Two storeys with deep ashlar band between floors. 3-bay symmetrical
facade to Peel Street: central portico with paired, Corinthian columns with
backing pilasters, full entablature of blocking course. Later iron balcony
rails. Round arched ground floor windows with voussoirs and impost band.
Round arched 1st floor windows with impost capitals, scrolled spandrels,
console keystone and bracketed cornice. The centre window is surmounted by
carved head with scrolled support. The 5-bay symmetrical facade to Brougham
Road is treated the same, except that the portico has only single columns, and
the 2 ground floor windows to left are square headed with tall brackets
supporting cornice. A dormer with scrolled support surmounts this elevation.
The 3-bay elevation has good stack at eaves level. Surmounting the corner is a
tall, timber, square clock tower, louvred at the base and with round clock to
all four faces,which each have triangular pediment over. Steep pyramidal roof
with lucarnes and decorative metalwork railings at top. Important corner site.
Listing NGR: SE0495311604
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