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32-40, Station Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Batley, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7097 / 53°42'34"N

Longitude: -1.6243 / 1°37'27"W

OS Eastings: 424895

OS Northings: 423763

OS Grid: SE248237

Mapcode National: GBR KT3J.4X

Mapcode Global: WHC9Y.00SW

Plus Code: 9C5WP95G+V7

Entry Name: 32-40, Station Road

Listing Date: 23 April 1982

Last Amended: 7 December 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1300286

English Heritage Legacy ID: 340965

ID on this website: 101300286

Location: Hanging Heaton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF17

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Batley East

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Batley

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Batley St Thomas

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


In the entry for:-

SE 22 SW BATLEY MB STATION ROAD BATLEY 4/59 (west side)

23.4.82 Nos. 32, 34 & 40

GV II

The address shall be amended to read:-

SE 22 SW BATLEY MB STATION ROAD BATLEY 4/59 (west side)

23.4.82 Nos. 32, 34 36, 38 & 40

GV II

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SE 22 SW BATLEY MB STATION ROAD (west side) BATLEY 4/59 23.4.82 Nos. 32, 34 & 40

G.V. II

Warehouses in Italian Gothic style. Circa 1870. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 3 storeys. No. 40 is of 10 bays, 6 of which curve round corner. No. 32 of 3 bays. Doorway only remains of No. 34. Framed and separated by massive, nook shafted piers whose heavy foliated capitals support heavy consoled cornice with blocking course with dies over piers. Cambered heads to ground floor windows. Round arched heads to 1st and 2nd floor windows, all with gothic hood mould and alternately coloured voussoirs. Large sculptured roundels on piers on ground floor level and in tympana of ground floor windows, one with squirrel, others with flowers and foliage. Between 2nd floor windows are angled shafts ending in grotesque beasts. Panelled doors with flat lintel and lobed relieving arch over.

Across the front of the buildings are 11 squat piers with segmental pedimented heads, with some Gothic ironwork surviving.

At the time of survey roof to No. 40 was missing.

Listing NGR: SE2489523763

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