High street: No 4 - 6 (Eddison's Estate Agents)
Details
| Deposited Plan Number: | no data |
| Date: | Around 1860 |
| Plans Register: | no data |
| Street: | High street |
| Property Name / Number: | 4 - 6 (Eddison's Estate Agents) |
| Area: | Town Centre, HD1 4SJ |
| District: | Kirklees |
| Town: | Huddersfield |
| Grid Reference: | SE1439616485 |
| Building Project: | No 4 - 6 (Eddison's Estate Agents) |
| Type: | Commercial |
| Applicant: | no data |
| Applicant Address: | no data |
| Architect: | William Cocking |
| Architect Address: | Huddersfield |
| 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, Grade II Listed (29 September 1978) |
| English Heritage Listing: | 1134196 — listed on 29 September 1978 (old ID: 339984) |
| Location of Archives: | no data |
| Buildings of Huddersfield ID: | 4034 |
Additional Information
Mid C19 (Italian Renaissance Gothic Design). Ashlar, with alternating pink sandstone voussoirs and polished marble colonnettes. 2 storeys. 3 gables with blind triple arcades on each. 3 pairs pointed sashes with pointed relieving arches over each pair on 1st floor. Ground floor has segment-headed archway in centre with elaborate cast iron ornamental gates, flanked by oblong windows, flanked in turn by pointed arched doorways with plate cusping, and doors with 6 elaborately moulded panels. Wealth of high quality ornamental carving, rarely repeating itself: eg 6 keystones with masks, sculpted spandrels to archway and 1st floor windows, Romanesque capitals to colonnettes, and bands of foliage around voussoirs of doors and archway, and under 1st floor sills.
[Extract from the Historic England web site, list entry number 1134196]