Railway Street: Ramsden Estate Office
Details
Deposited Plan Number: | no data |
Date: | 1871- 2 |
Plans Register: | no data |
Street: | Railway Street |
Property Name / Number: | 1 - 11 (odd), (Former Ramsden Estate Office) |
Area: | Town Centre, HD1 1JS |
District: | Kirklees |
Town: | Huddersfield |
Grid Reference: | SE1437916804 |
Building Project: | Ramsden Estate Office |
Type: | commercial |
Applicant: | no data |
Applicant Address: | no data |
Architect: | W.H. Crossland |
Architect Address: | no data |
Status of Project: | no data |
Contractor: | no data |
Contractor Address: | no data |
Work Commenced: | 1871 |
Work Completed: | 1872 |
Occupants: | no data |
Subsequent Alterations / History: | Existing, Grade II Listed (29 September 1978) |
English Heritage Listing: | 1231474 — listed on 29 September 1978 (old ID: 406616) |
Location of Archives: | no data |
Buildings of Huddersfield ID: | 3906 |
Images
Additional Information
1871-2. Architect W H Crossland. Former Ramsden Estate Office. Ashlar. Hipped slate roofs, some conical. 4 storeys. Traceried parapet, corbelled out. Moulded strings, that to 1st floor carved with foliage. Nos 1-7 approximately symmetrical about 2 canted bays. From south to north they have 4 ranges of sashes, bay, 8 ranges of sashes, bay, 3 ranges of sashes. Corbelled out balcony to 4 central windows of 2nd floor. Doors are set in archways with moulded voussoirs, marble colonnettes and foliage capitals, closed by elaborate Gothic wrought iron gates: No 1's is set in a gabled portal with buttress at north end, No 9 and 11's with fanlights pierced by quatrefoils, No 5 and 7's with carved impost band: hoodmoulds. Windows set in deep moulded reveals and very closely spaced, 1st floor ones segment-headed, 3rd floor ones round-arched, 1st floor ones in bays with cusped heads, 3rd floor ones in bays with pointed heads: above ground floor all windows have polished marble colonnettes with foliage capitals. Nos 9 and 11 break forward slightly and have pinnacled and gabled tourelles corbelled out at corners on 3rd floor buttress in centre of ground, 1st and 2nd floors. Fenestration is the same, except it is grouped irregularly: 2 windows in south part, 3 windows in north part. Area with elaborate wrought iron railings.
[Extract from the Historic England web site, list entry number 1231474]
Location
What's Nearby?
Record | Distance (feet & meters) | |
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Station Street: No 15 | 71ft | 22m |
Station Street: No 9 - 13 | 73ft | 22m |
Railway Street: No 13 - 21 | 108ft | 33m |
St. George's Square: No 7 | 130ft | 40m |
Station Street: No 1 - 7 | 130ft | 40m |
Westgate: Ramsden Estate Offices (& adjoining buildings) (1870) - plan# 142 | 147ft | 45m |
Station Street: Station Street Buildings 12 | 154ft | 47m |
Railway Street: No 2 - 6 | 175ft | 53m |
St. George's Square: No 12 - 20 Warehouse | 189ft | 58m |
Westgate: No 28 - 32 | 193ft | 59m |
Westgate: New Arcade (Byram Arcade) (1878) - plan# 700 | 197ft | 60m |
Westgate: The Byram Arcade 10 - 18 (1880) | 216ft | 66m |
St. George's Square: Britannia Buildings (1856) | 221ft | 67m |
John William Street: No 17 - 37 | 227ft | 69m |
Westgate: No 34 - 42 | 244ft | 74m |
St. George's Square: No 1 and 3 | 249ft | 76m |
Market Street: No 1 and 3 (1913) | 266ft | 81m |
John William Street: No 11 - 15 | 280ft | 85m |
John William Street: No 1 - 9 | 303ft | 92m |
Westgate: Westgate House (1923) | 325ft | 99m |