John William Street: No 17 - 37
Details
Deposited Plan Number: | no data |
Date: | Mid 19th Century |
Plans Register: | no data |
Street: | John William Street |
Property Name / Number: | 17 - 37 (odd) |
Area: | Town Centre, HD1 1BL |
District: | Kirklees |
Town: | Huddersfield |
Grid Reference: | SE1444816812 |
Building Project: | No 17 - 37 |
Type: | no data |
Applicant: | no data |
Applicant Address: | no data |
Architect: | no data |
Architect Address: | no data |
Status of Project: | no data |
Contractor: | no data |
Contractor Address: | no data |
Work Commenced: | no data |
Work Completed: | no data |
Occupants: | no data |
Subsequent Alterations / History: | Existing, Ground floor to J.W street now modern shop fronts (see below), Grade II Listed (29 September 1978) |
English Heritage Listing: | 1313914 — listed on 29 September 1978 (old ID: 340011) |
Location of Archives: | no data |
Buildings of Huddersfield ID: | 3766 |
Additional Information
Mid C19. Ashlar sandstone. Ashlar stacks. 3 storeys. Modillion eaves cornice.
Parapet with regularly spaced piers. Continuous moulded sill on 1st and 2nd floors. Continuous moulded cornice to ground floor, partly obscured by modern shops. Rusticated quoins. Ground floor on John William Street side nearly all modern shopfronts except for following:
1. Doorway of No 19, which has Tuscan columns taking full entablature, door with 6 moulded panels, and square fanlight.
2. Late C19 shopfront with fancy glazing bars immediately south of arch.
3. Rusticated pilaster and 2 elaborately moulded consoles to ground floor cornice immediately south of archway.
Ground floor to St Peter's Street is rusticated and has 2 windows, 2 doors and one segment-headed archway (with contemporary cast iron gates) in plain surrounds, with moulded and slightly dropped keystones. 19 ranges of sashes with glazing bars on John William Street, and 6 on St Peter's Street. 1st floor windows have moulded and shouldered frames, with slightly projecting panelled aprons, entablatures, segmental pediments on windows 3, 8, 11, 15 and 18, and a segmental pediment on window 13 (counting from left). Window
13 also has balustrade with vase-shaped balusters. 2nd floor windows are segment-headed have moulded and shouldered surrounds, keystones, and 2 moulded consoles to each sill. Bay 6 on John William Street breaks back slightly, has trabeated archway, and ground floor cornice is surmounted by rusticated voussoirs.
(Extract from English Heritage listed buildings service, record number 340011) http://lbonline.english-heritage.org.uk/BuildingDetailsForm.aspx?id=340011&search=y
Location
What's Nearby?
Record | Distance (feet & meters) | |
---|---|---|
Station Street: Station Street Buildings 12 | 73ft | 22m |
St. George's Square: Britannia Buildings (1856) | 128ft | 39m |
John William Street: No 11 - 15 | 144ft | 44m |
John William Street: No 22-34 | 145ft | 44m |
Station Street: No 9 - 13 | 171ft | 52m |
Westgate: The Byram Arcade 10 - 18 (1880) | 174ft | 53m |
John William Street: No 1 - 9 | 187ft | 57m |
Station Street: No 15 | 189ft | 58m |
Westgate: New Arcade (Byram Arcade) (1878) - plan# 700 | 194ft | 59m |
Station Street: No 1 - 7 | 223ft | 68m |
St. George's Square: No 7 | 224ft | 68m |
Railway Street: Ramsden Estate Office (1871) | 227ft | 69m |
Railway Street: No 13 - 21 | 234ft | 71m |
St. Peter's Street: Department of Social Services | 236ft | 72m |
John William Street: Lion Buildings (1853) | 250ft | 76m |
St. Peter's Street: Revenue Chambers 11 and 13 | 257ft | 78m |
Westgate: Ramsden Estate Offices (& adjoining buildings) (1870) - plan# 142 | 263ft | 80m |
Westgate: Westgate House (1923) | 287ft | 87m |
Byram Street: No 4 | 300ft | 92m |
Westgate / New Street: West Yorkshire Bank Building (1912) | 304ft | 93m |