Latitude: 53.7504 / 53°45'1"N
Longitude: -1.4525 / 1°27'9"W
OS Eastings: 436199
OS Northings: 428363
OS Grid: SE361283
Mapcode National: GBR LT92.BB
Mapcode Global: WHDBR.NZJR
Plus Code: 9C5WQG2W+5X
Entry Name: Numbers 4 and 5 Bentley Square
Listing Date: 5 June 1964
Last Amended: 28 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313154
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342093
ID on this website: 101313154
Location: Oulton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26
County: Leeds
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Rothwell
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Oulton with Woodlesford St John
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Farmhouse
SE 32 NE
6/70
5th June 1964
ROTHWELL
CALVERLEY ROAD LS26
(north side)
Oulton
Nos. 4 and 5 Bentley Square
(No. 5 formerly listed as Bentley Cottage)
II
Farmhouse, now two dwellings. C17 or earlier; altered. Stone with roughcast
render, stone slate roof. L-plan: linear 3-unit range with rear outshut
(No.4) with receding wing at right-hand end (No. 5). Two storeys; 1st unit
(left end of No.4) formerly byre, altered and incorporated in house;
remainder has C20 bay windows at ground floor and door between, all under
mono-pitched stone slate roof; blocked window above door, and C20 casements
at 1st floor; stone copings to left gable, ridge chimney and 2 other
chimneys behind ridge. Wing (No.5) has stone gable coping with kneelers, a
large C20 casement on each floor of the gable end and similar casement in the
2-bay return wall, a door at the junction of the bays; 2 ridge chimneys.
(Modern addition to the rear not included in the item).
Interior: altered, but No. 4 has timber-framed arcade partition between
housepart and outshut in 2nd bay: 2 posts exposed, with high stone
stylobates, arcade plate, and angle-braces, with light studs on a rail
beneath the arcade plate; and arched brick fireplace (restored); No. 5 (wing)
has exposed king-post roof truss, but is otherwise altered.
History: birthplace of Richard Bentley (1662-1742), scholar and divine;
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1700-34.
Listing NGR: SE3619928363
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