Dewsbury was a market town until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, which brought the woollen industry to the area. This was made possible by the communications provided by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation which pass to the south of the town, and the railway, which passes through it.[1] The listed buildings associated with water transport include locks, bridges, and a milestone, and those associated with the railway are a railway station, a viaduct, a bridges, and a series of underbridges. Crow Nest Park was developed in the grounds of Crow Nest House,[2] which is listed together with structures in its grounds, and its three main entrances. The other listed buildings include houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, churches and items in churchyards, schools, the base of a market cross and a memorial stone, shops, offices and warehouses, a road bridge, a textile mill and a former mill, a boundary stone, public houses and a hotel, a set of toll gates, banks, civic buildings, a former hospital, cemetery buildings, two war memorials, and telephone kiosks.
The oldest parts of the church are the arcades. The church was largely rebuilt in 1765–67 by John Carr, there were extensive alterations in 1823, 1884–48, and 1895, and in 1994 the interior of the church was reordered. It is built in stone with roofs in stone slate and lead, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a chancel with chapels and a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, north and west doorways, and an embattledparapet with eight crocketedpinnacles. The east window has seven lights.[4][5]
The hall was destroyed in an explosion in 1648 during the Civil War. It is on a moated site, and all that remains are a fireplace, and part of a wall containing the sill of a window and part of its moulded surround. There are also two eroded limestone eagles that have been moved from elsewhere.[6][7]
The oldest part of the church is the west tower, which possibly contains older fabric. The Savile (north) chapel dates from 1447 and was extended in 1493, the chancel and south chapel date from 1490, and alterations and additions were made in 1877 by G. E. Street. The church is built in stone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a clerestory, north and south chapels, and a west tower. Most of the church is in Perpendicular style, and Street's alterations are in Decorated style. The tower has two tall stages with diagonal buttresses, a west doorway with a moulded surround, and an embattledparapet on corbel brackets with eight crocketedpinnacles. The Savile chapel contains an important collection of monuments.[8][9]
This consists of the remaining east wing and part of the hall range of a timber framed house, and the rest having been demolished. In the 17th century the hall range was extended and encased in stone, and the house was restored in 1962–64. The east wing has two storeys and two bays. The hall range has quoins and some brick infill, and there are 2½ bays.[10][11]
A house, later divided, it is in stone and rendered brick with a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, a three-bay hall range and a cross-wing. The doorway has a fanlight, and the windows are sashes. Attached is a stable and a hayloft.[14]
The farmhouse is in stone, partly rendered, with string courses, and a stone slate roof with chamferedgablecopings. There are two storeys and two gabled bays. In the centre are two Tudor arched doorways, and above is an ornamental dated rainwater head. Most of the windows are mullioned, and in the right gable end is a round-headed fire window.[6][15]
The former brewhouse in the garden of the farmhouse is in stone, and has chamferedgablecopings on moulded kneelers. There is one storey and one bay, and in the gable end is a doorway with a moulded surround and a single-light window above.[17]
The outbuilding, thought to have been a gatehouse, is derelict and without a roof. It is timber framed with brick infill, and stone on the south side. There is one storey and one bay.[18]
Originally the west wing of the main hall, it was later detached, and expanded in the 19th century. The house is in stone on a plinth, and has a stone slate roof with hollow chamferedcopings on the left. There are two storeys, a rectangular plan, and three bays. The left bay contains a twelve-light mullioned and transomed window, with a hood mould and a gable above. The other windows are mullioned with hood moulds, the doorway has a chamfered surround and a triangular lintel, and to its left is a projecting chimney breast.[10][20]
The barn is timber framed and encased in stone probably in the 18th century. It has a stone slate roof, 3½ bays, an aisle in a continuous outshut to the east, and a 1½-bay outshut on the west. The barn contains a square-headed cart entry.[21]
The base of the market cross consists of a round stone with a socket on the top. Alongside is a memorial stone dated 1835 that originated as a drinking fountain. It consists of a square red sandstone post with rendered panels, and a decoratively carved four-gabled cap. On one side is an iron bowl and former fountain, and on the opposite side is an inscribed brass plate.[22]
The barn is timber framed, it has been encased in stone, probably in the 18th century, and later extended; it has quoins and a stone slate roof. The barn contains a central square-headed cart entry with outshuts on each side, and in the left gable end are square vent holes.[23]
The rectory, later used for other purposes, was largely rebuilt in 1824. It is in stone with quoins, a sill band, dentilled gutter brackets, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, a central block of three bays, a projecting two-bay hip-roofed block to the left, and a single-bay gabled block on the right. The outer blocks contain bow windows, the other windows are sashes, and in the left angle is a later conservatory.[6][24]
The house, which was altered and extended in 1879, is in stone with quoins, and a stone slate roof with copedgables, cut kneelers, and finials. There are two storeys, and the extensions were added at right angles. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed.[6][25]
A pair of cottages that were altered in the 20th century, they are in stone with quoins and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, the ground floor back to earth, and three bays. The windows are casements, and inside there is an upper-cruck truss.[26]
The farm building, which has been altered and used for various purposes, is in stone with quoins, and a stone slate roof with copedgables and finials. It has an L-shaped plan, and is partly in two storeys. The openings include segmental-headed cart entries, some openings with massive lintels, there is a gabled cart entry, ventilation slits, and casement windows.[27]
The farmhouse has been much altered and extended. The earliest part is in red brick, there is an 18th-century stone outbuilding extension to the north, and a 19th-century stone farmhouse extension at right angles to the south, partly rendered. The roofs are in stone slate, Welsh slate, and corrugated iron, and there are two storeys. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements, and there are the remains of some mullioned windows in the outbuilding.[28]
The adjoining farmhouse and outbuildings were added to the original farmhouse in the 19th century. All the buildings are in stone with stone slate roofs and two storeys. The original farmhouse has two bays, a gabled porch, and an outshut. The later farmhouse forms a cross-wing, and has a symmetrical front of three bays and a central gable. The barn is in line with the original farmhouse, and it contains opposed elliptical-headed cart entries, square pitching holes, and vents, and the other outbuildings form a courtyard with the rear of the barn.[29]
A stone house, restored in the 20th century, it is in stone, and has a stone slate roof with chamferedgablecopings and moulded kneelers. There are two storeys and two bays. The doorway has a Tudor arch and the windows are mullioned. The hood mould over the left window in the ground floor rises over the doorway.[30]
A house, later divided, it is in stone with quoins and copedgables with cut kneelers. There are two storeys, a double depth plan, and three bays. The doorway has a chamfered surround, and the windows are double chamfered and mullioned with three lights.[31]
A house, later divided, it is in stone, with quoins and a stone slate roof with copedgables and moulded kneelers. There are two storeys and attics, and the main bock is flanked by single-storey extensions with hipped roofs. In the centre of the garden front is a doorway with a fanlight and a moulded flat hood. On each side is a cantedbay window, there are similar bay windows in the extensions, and the other windows are a mix of sashes, casements and mullioned windows.[33]
The buildings are in stone and some later brickwork, with quoins, and a stone slate roof with chamferedgablecopings, cut kneelers and a finial. The openings include segmental-headed cart entries, arched entrances, and a window, now blocked, with a triangular lintel, and there are two re-used datestones.[34]
The farmhouse is in stone, partly rendered, with quoins and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, two bays, and a rear outshut. The windows are mullioned with three lights.[35]
A summer house in stone, consisting of a square building with a basement and one bay, with a continuous sill band, an eavescornice, and a blocking course. On each face is a round-arched recess, one containing a doorway, and the others blocked windows, each with a chambranle, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment on small corbels. Stone steps lead to a doorway in the basement.[2][36]
The bridge carries a road over the Calder and Hebble Navigation at the west junction of the River Calder with the Greenwood Cut. It is in stone with copings, rendered under the arch, and consists of a single low segmental arch at an angle. The bridge and its parapets end in round capped buttresses. The adjacent lock is in stone, with a parapet to the north, and it contains wooden gates.[37]
The lock is on the Calder and Hebble Navigation at the east junction of the River Calder with the Greenwood Cut. It is in stone with coping, and contains two pairs of wooden gates. There is a later wooden footbridge approached on both sides by setts.[38]
The two locks are at the junction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation with the Dewsbury Cut. They are in stone with concrete coping, and between them is an elliptical basin.[40]
The milestone is on the towpath of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. It consists of a square stone post with a rounded top inscribed with the distance from Fall Ing.[42]
The stables are in stone with stone slate roof, they have one storey and an L-shaped plan. The openings include a blocked cart entry, doorways some of which are blocked, and casement windows.[43]
A pair of stuccoed shops with a stone slate roof. There are three storeys and four bays, the left two bays projecting under a pediment. The right two bays have a frieze and modillioncornice. In the ground floor are modern shop fronts, and the upper floors contain sash windows.[44]
The house is in red brick with stone dressings, quoins, and a stone slate roof with copedgables and cut kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays, an outshut at the rear, and a later two-storey extension at the rear on the left. In the centre is a doorway, and the windows are sashes.[45]
The bridge, which was widened to the west in the 19th century, carries Thornhill Road (B6117 road) over the River Calder. It is in stone, and consists of five round arches with triangular cutwaters. The bridge has a cast ironbalustrade, with round bars and a frieze pierced with quatrefoils and circles, and under it are corbels.[46]
A group of offices and warehouses in stone with slate roofs, with additions into later in the 19th century. No. 11 Wellington Road is an office with three storeys and two bays. To the left and at an angle is a warehouse with three storeys and three bays, the middle bay containing loading doors, and a Diocletian window in a gable above. To the right is a long range along Wellington Road with four storeys and nine bays. On its right is a curved corner bay, and in Bond Street are blocks of five and four bays, the latter containing a cart entrance.[47]
A house, later a shop and warehouse on a corner site, it is in sandstone, mainly stuccoed, with bracketed eaves, and a hipped sandstone slate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, and a wedge-shaped plan, with two bays on the front, a canted corner on the ground floor, and three bays on the right return. In the ground floor is a modern shop front with a fascia, and the upper floors contain sash windows.[48]
A textile mill complex that was later altered and expanded. It consists of an entrance range, a spinning mill with an attached engine house, boiler house and chimney, and single storey weaving sheds. The buildings are in stone with roofs of slate and stone slate.[49]
A small chapel, later converted for residential use, it is in stone, rendered on the sides and rear, with moulded gutter brackets and a stone slate roof with copedgables. There is one storey at the front, and two at the rear, and a front of three bays. The central doorway and the flanking windows have round-arched heads.[54]
A stone house in Classical style on a plinth, it has sill bands, an eavescornice with a blocking course, and a stone slate roof. There are three storeys and a symmetrical front of three bays. In the centre is a doorway, and the windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with cornices, and in the upper floors with grooved lintels.[55]
A shop in stone and in Classical style. There are three storeys, a front of one bay on Market Place, and eight bays along Market Street. On the front is a modern shop front, and above are giant pilasters, a frieze a cornice and a blocking course. The windows are sashes with voussoirs.[56]
A shop on a corner site, it is in stone with a mouldedeavescornice and blocking course, and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys, three bays on the front, and four on the right return. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, and the windows are casements.[58]
A house, later divided into two shops, it is in Classical style. The building is in painted stone with sill bands, an eavescornice and blocking course, and a Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and two bays. The ground floor contains modern shop fronts, in the upper floors are sash windows with grooved lintels, and over the top windows are blank panels.[59]
The boundary stone is on the footpath on the east side of High Street, and marks with boundary between Dewsbury and Batley. It consists of a stone slab with a rounded top, and is incised with a vertical line flanked by the names of the towns.[60]
The church is in stone on a plinth, the ground floor rusticated, with a string course, a frieze, a mouldedeavescornice, and a blocking course with an inscription. There are two storeys, the upper storey flanked by Tuscanpilasters, a front of five bays, and six bays along the sides. All the openings have round heads, and there are two doorways with fanlights in the ground floor. The ground floor windows have aprons, the apron in the central window being a war memorial. Between the windows in the middle bay is an inscribed tablet.[62][63]
Enclosing the forecourt to the church are stone walls with spear-headed railings. The square stone gate piers are rusticated in the upper parts and have square caps, and between them are stone steps.[64]
A warehouse in stone on a plinth, with quoins, sill bands, mouldedeaves, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are four storeys and eight bays. The doorway has a fanlight and a flat hood, and the windows are sashes with wedge lintels. At the rear are seven bays, and in the middle bay are taking-in doors.[65]
The church, designed by Ignatius Bonomi in Neo-Norman style, is built in stone with slate roofs. The church consists of a nave, a chancel, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, a round-arched and decorated west doorway with colonnettes and scalloped capitals, above which is a four-light window, and a squat pyramidal roof. The windows have round arches, and in the east gable end is a wheel window. The nave windows have two lights separated by a mullion, colonnettes with scalloped capitals, and diapering in the tympani, and above them is a saw-tooth corbel table in the eaves.[66][67]
The former mill building, later converted for residential use, is in stone, and has a stone slate roof with copedgables. There are six storeys, a front of twelve bays, eleven bays at the rear, and sides of four bays. On the south side are loading bays, the windows are casements, and in the gable end is a Venetian window.[68][69]
A school converted into a church and including a cottage, it is in stone and has a stone slate roof, partly tiled, with copedgables, moulded kneelers, and spear finials. The cottage has two storeys and the main building has one storey. The cottage has three bays and a single-storey extension, and contains a central doorway with a Tudor arched head and two-light windows, all with hood moulds. The main building consists of a long range with a wing to the right. Most windows are mullioned and transomed, and there are three lancet windows. The doorway has Tudor arches and fanlights, and on the front is an inscribed and dated plaque.[70]
The bridge was built by the Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway as an accommodation bridge. It is in sandstone, and consists of a single semicircular arch with rusticatedvoussoirs, and impost bands. Above the arch is a string course and a blocking course. The wing walls are curving and ramped, with plain coping, and end in pilaster strips.[74]
The bridge was built by the Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway, it carries a footpath over the line, and is in sandstone. The bridge consists of a single segmental arch with rusticatedvoussoirs, quoinedjambs, and an impost band. Above the arch is a string course, and a parapet with rounded coping.[75]
The church was designed by Ignatius Bonomi and Cory in Decorated style, a chapel was added in 1898, and the church has been converted for residential use. It is built in stone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower is squat, without buttresses, and has a stair turret and a stepped embattledparapet. The east window is transomed, and has 14 lights.[78][79]
The station was built for the London and North Western Railway, it is in stone with slate roofs, and in Tudor style. The entrance block has two storeys and four bays, Tudor arched entrances in the outer bays, mullioned and transomed windows between, and sash windows above. In front is a glass canopy and sides on dwarf walls. Inside are platform buildings with glass canopies on cast iron columns, and a covered footbridge. To the left is the former stationmaster's house, later a public house, with five bays, two storeys in the middle bay with a shaped gable, flanked by single-storey bays with shaped parapets, and recessed single-storey bays. The building contains mullioned and transomed windows.[80][81]
The toll gate was built on the turnpike road from Dewsbury to Leeds. It consists of two pairs of circular cast iron posts with conical tops, and between the outer posts are panels in wrought iron in a lattice pattern.[84]
The barn is in stone with quoins, and a stone slate roof with copedgables. The front facing the street contains a segmental-headed cart entry with a keystone, and square and round-headed openings.[86]
An office block in stone with vermiculatedquoins and dressings in the ground floor, an eavescornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of five bays. The central porch protrudes slightly and contains a doorway with a semicircular fanlight flanked by small round-arched niches, and the windows are casements.[88]
The former coach house in Crow Nest Park is in stone, and has hippedslate roof. There is a single storey, a main range and two projecting wings. The main range contains three elliptical-arched carriage entrances, with an oculus over each outer entrance and a square window over the central one. In each wing are two entrances and a central window.[89]
A warehouse on a corner site in buff sandstone on a plinth, with a sill band, a modillioneavescornice, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, and sides of ten bays with a curved bay on the corner. The main entrance is on the corner and has Doric columns, and an entablature with triglyphs, metopes, paterae and guttae. Above it are windows with architraves, that in the middle floor with a cornice. The other ground floor openings are arched and have quoined surrounds. The windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding, and in the upper floors they have flat heads.[90]
The vicarage is in stone with buttresses, a string course, and a slate roof. There are two storeys, the fronts are asymmetrical, and the windows are mullioned and transomed. In the centre of the entrance front is an arched porch with a chamfered surround. The garden front has a projecting gabledbay on the left, with a cantedbay window in the ground floor and a square bay window above.[91][93]
The bank, which is in Italianatepalazzo style, is in stone, with the ground floor rusticated and vermiculated. Over the ground floor and at the eaves are moulded and dentilledcornices. There are three storeys, a front of six bays, the left bay recessed, and three bays on the right return. The doorways are in the outer bays, and the ground floor windows are round-arched; all the ground floor openings have rusticated voussoirs, Ionic colonnettes, and keystones with carved heads. In the middle floor, each window has a cambered head, and an open segmental pediment on decorative consoles, and the top floor windows have square heads and shouldered architraves. On the ground floor side windows are wrought iron railings, and in front of the building are bulbous iron railings with pointed finials.[2][94]
The bank, which is in Italianate style, is in stone, the lower two storeys rusticated, with a mouldedeavescornice on paired consoles, a balustradedparapet with urns and dies, and a hippedpantile roof. There are three storeys and four bays, the bays are separated by rusticated pilasters, there is an entablature on each floor, and each bay contains two windows. In the outer bays are doorways, the left one with a segmental pediment on decorative consoles. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, and all the openings on the ground floor have elongated keystones. The windows in the middle floor have round heads and spandrels carved with foliage and human and rams' heads, and the top floor windows have segmental heads.[62][95]
The sundial is in the churchyard to the south of the church. It is in stone, and consists of an octagonal column with a foliated capital, on an octagonal slab and an octagonal base. On the top is a circular brass plate and a long gnomon.[97]
The school is in stone, and has a slate roof with a bellcote. There is a single storey and a symmetrical front, with a central range of seven bays and flanking cross-wings, and a later extension in front of the left wing. Steps lead up to a central doorway, and the second and fifth bays are gabled and contain mullioned and transomed windows. The windows in the cross-wings have four lights, over which is a tympanum with a circular window containing a six-pointed star.[91][98]
A school with a schoolmaster's house at the rear, later used for other purposes, it is in stone, and has slate roofs with copedgables, cut kneelers, and decorative wrought ironfinials. The school has one storey and the house has two, and the school consists of a central range with gabled cross-wings. Steps lead up to the porch that has a moulded cusped arch and engaged colonnettes with foliate capitals. To the left of the porch is a six-light mullioned window with round-headed lights. In each gable end is a three-light window with an arched hood, the tympanum decorated, and above is a coat of arms.[91][99]
The building is in stone, the front is rusticated, alternate courses in the ground floor are vermiculated, and there is a dentilledcornice over the ground floor, a plain cornice over the upper floor, a broad eaves cornice on long consoles, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and an attic, a front of six bays, three bays on the sides, and a lower two-bay extension at the rear. The doorway to the left has a segmental head and a fanlight, and above it is a Royal coat of arms. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, architraves, keystones, aprons, and a sill band on consoles, and above them is an inscribed frieze. In the upper floor are round-headed windows with pilasterjambs and guilloché decoration, and in the attic are small rectangular windows. The rear extension has a two-bay arcadedportico.[80][101]
Flanking the entrance to the drive are tall octagonal stone piers, on a moulded double plinth, each with a gabledbuttress on each front, and surmounted by an octagonal stone spire with a finial. Outside the pedestrian gates are shorter piers, also with gabled buttresses and moulded double plinths, and with banded pyramidal that have lucarnes and finials. The gates are in cast iron and in Gothic style.[102]
The former Non-Conformist chapel, now derelict, is in stone, and has a slate roof with copedgables, cross finials, and ornate ridge tiles. There is a cruciform plan, with a projecting porch, north and south wings, and a rear wing, all gabled. In the porch is a moulded arched entrance with a hood mould, over which is a triangular opening containing a circular cusped window, and the porch is flanked by lancet windows.[80][103]
The former Church of England chapel, now ruinous, is in stone, and has a slate roof with copedgables, cross finials, and ornate ridge tiles. There is a cruciform plan, with a projecting porch, north and south wings, and a rear wing, all gabled. In the porch is a moulded arched entrance with a hood mould, over which is a triangular opening containing a circular cusped window, and the porch is flanked by lancet windows.[80][104]
A stone warehouse, the ground floor rusticated, with quoins in the upper floors, mouldedbands between the floors, a moulded eavescornice, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and a front of three bays. The ground floor openings have round heads with vermiculatedkeystones, the central doorway has a fanlight, and the flanking windows have aprons. The middle floor contains three sash windows, the middle window with a segmental pediment and the outer windows with cornices, and in the top floor are paired round-headed sash windows.[62][105]
A stone warehouse on a mouldedplinth, with rusticatedquoins and a dentilledeavescornice. There are three storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway, and above are loading doors, all with segmental heads. The outer bays contain sash windows with moulded surrounds and keystones, in the ground floor with round heads, and in the upper floors with segmental heads.[62][106]
A warehouse in buff sandstone with floor bands, a mouldedeavescornice and a modern roof. There are three storeys at the front, four at the rear, and two bays. In the right bay is an arched doorway, and to its left is a pair of arched casement windows with moulded surrounds, capitals and keystones. The middle floor contains casement windows with moulded sills and flat hoods, and in the top floor are sash windows with segmental heads.[107]
A stone warehouse that has sill bands, bracketed eaves, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are four storeys and a basement, a front of three bays, seven bays along the sides, and a three-bay extension on the left at the rear. The central round-headed window is flanked by panelled pilasters with rusticatedplinths and moulded heads, above it is a circular cusped window, and a keystone carved with a head. The round-headed windows in the outer bays have two round-headed lights with a column between and a roundel above. The windows in the first floor have round heads, those in the first floor with keystones, and the basement windows and those in the top floor have segmental heads. The windows along the sides have flat heads, and the middle bay of the extension contains taking-in doors.[62][108]
A pair of warehouses, later converted into apartments, in buff sandstone, the ground floor rusticated, with quoins, sill bands, and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, and an entrance front of four bays. The ground floor openings are arched and have keystones with carved heads. In the second bay is a doorway, the third bay has been converted from a doorway and windows inserted, and the outer bays contain windows with mouldedaprons, and segmental arched basement windows. The windows in the upper floors have architraves, those in the middle floor with keystones. The south front is angled, it has four storeys and five bays, and contains taking-in doors.[110]
The church, later a mosque, is in stone and has two storeys and a basement. There are five bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment that has carving and a dated central roundel in the tympanum. This is flanked by a balustradedparapet with urns. The basement windows have square heads, and the windows in the upper floors have round heads. The ground floor windows have decorated aprons, and the upper floor windows have pointed hood moulds and balustrades. Between the floors is a cornice, and at the top is a dentiled cornice. To the left steps lead up to a doorway with a cambered head, there are six bays on the sides and four at the rear, the middle two bays projecting under a pediment.[62][111]
The church was originally designed by John Cory in Gothic Revival style, and was completed in 1899–1900 by C. Hodgson Fowler. It is in stone, the west part of the roof is slated, and the east part is tiled. The church consists of a nave, a south aisle of similar size, a north porch. a chancel with north and south transepts, and a small square northwest tower with an octagonal open bellcote. The west window has three lights, the east window has five, and in the south transept is a wheel window.[112][113]
A warehouse and offices, the building is in stone with a rusticated ground floor, quoins, sill bands, a bracketed eavescornice, and slate roofs. There are three storeys and a basement, eleven bays along Wellington Road, eight on Croft Road, and one curved bay in the acute angle between them. In the curved bay is a round-arched doorway with a moulded surround. There are two basement doorways on Wellington Road, a taking-in door on Croft Road, and the other openings are windows. Those in the basement have segmental heads, in the ground floor they have round heads, in the middle floor flat heads and moulded surrounds, and in the top floor the windows have segmental heads.[114]
A warehouse on a corner site, later incorporating shops, and in the late 20th century converted into apartments. It is in buff sandstone with a slate roof, three storeys and a basement on Wellington Street, and four storeys on Nelson Street. There are six bays on Wellington Street, nine on Nelson Street, and three curved bays on the corner. Features include gableted turrets on twisted colonnettes, and on the corner is a roundel with a hood mould.[115]
The minister's house for St Paulinius' Church, it was designed by E. W. Pugin. It is in stone with string courses and a slate roof, hipped on the left. Most of the windows have arched lights and hood moulds, and there is a gableddormer. At the rear are four storeys and two bays, the left bay gabled, and the right bay recessed with cross windows.[78][116]
A warehouse in buff sandstone, with a hippedslate roof, flat and leaded in the centre. There are five storeys and an irregular pentagonal plan. The entrance front has a rusticated ground floor and five bays. Above the ground and first floors are bracketed cornices, and the upper floors have sill bands. In the right bay is an arched doorway, to its left are two replacement windows and a wide modern entrance, and the windows above are sashes. The window over the doorway has a shouldered architrave, and above it is foliate carving and a cartouche. The windows in the first floor have shouldered architraves, those in the third and top floors have segmental heads and in the fourth floor they have flat heads.[119]
A warehouse on a corner site, with offices and shops, converted into apartments in the late 20th century. It is in buff sandstone, with floor bands, eaves on mouldedcorbels, and a slate roof. There are four storeys, five bays on Nelson Street, four on Wellington Street, and a narrow bay on the corner, quoined at the angles. The corner bay contains a doorway with a fanlight and a shouldered lintel, above which is a blind gabled arch on twisted colonnettes, the tympanum containing a monogram. Over this is a blind window, a quatrefoil with the date, and a stepped cap. In the ground floor are replacement shop fronts, and the upper floors contain sash windows, some with single lights, others with three lights arranged as Venetian windows.[120]
The church is in Decorated style, and is built in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a gabled south porch, shallow north and south transepts, and a northwest steeple. The steeple has a tower with three stages, a corbel table, and an octagonal splay-footed spire with four lucarnes. The windows on the sides of the church are lancets, and in the transepts are wheel windows.[80][121]
An office building in stone on a plinth, with a rusticated ground floor, and a cornice between each floor and at the eaves. There are four storeys and four bays. The ground floor openings are round-headed with keystones carved as heads, the doorway has a fanlight, and the windows have decorated aprons. The upper floor windows have vermiculated keystones, the first floor windows have elliptical heads and those above have segmental heads.[122]
An office building in stone, with a cornice between each floor, pilaster strips between the bays, and a mouldedeavescornice on paired brackets. There are three storeys and a basement, and seven bays. The doorway has a segmental-headed fanlight, and a segmental pediment on decorative consoles, the tympanum containing a carved shield and foliage decoration. The windows have vermiculatedkeystones and aprons, those in the ground and top floors with segmental-arched heads, and in the middle floor with round-arched heads.[123]
A row of three houses in stone, with hippedslate roofs and two storeys. At the right, in No. 57 is an elliptical-arched carriage entrance, and all the other ground floor openings have triangular pediments. No. 57 has two bays, the left bay containing a doorway flanked by single lights with a transom and three single lights above. No. 55 is taller, with a bracketed and mouldedeavescornice, four bays, a doorway on the left, and sash windows, flat-headed in the ground floor and round-headed in the upper floor. No. 53 has two bays, a doorway and sash windows.[124]
A shop and offices in stone, with a bracketed eavescornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are four storeys, four bays on the front, and two on the left return. In the ground floor are modern shop fronts, and the upper floors contain sash windows with moulded segmental heads.[125]
A commercial building angled round a corner site, in Italianate style, it is in stone with rusticatedquoins, sill bands, and a bracketed eavescornice and blocking course. There are four storeys and 14 bays. The doorway has a concave surround, and the ground floor windows have round arches, voussoirs, and vermiculatedkeystones. The windows in the first floor have architraves, pulvinated friezes, and triangular pediments, in the second floor they have square heads, friezes, and cornices, and in the top floor cambered heads, architraves with chambranles, and a cornice.[126]
At the entrance to the park are two pairs of square stone gate piers. Each pier has a large square base, and is panelled, with a segmental pedimented cap surmounted by a decorative wrought iron lamp bracket. Between the piers are decorative iron gates, double in the centre and pedestrian gates between the outer piers.[127]
At the entrance to the park are two pairs of square stone gate piers. Each pier has a large square base, and is panelled, with a segmental pedimented cap surmounted by a decorative wrought iron lamp bracket. Between the piers are decorative iron gates, double in the centre and pedestrian gates between the outer piers.[128]
At the main entrance to the park are two pairs of square stone gate piers. Each pier has a moulded square base, and is panelled, with a segmental pedimented cap on a cove cornice, surmounted by a decorative wrought iron lamp bracket. Between the piers are decorative iron gates, double in the centre and pedestrian gates between the outer piers.[129]
A hotel, later a public house, it is in Baroque style, and built in stone with a top cornice and a slate roof. The main block is pedimented and has three storeys and three bays, to the right is a single-storey four-bay curved wing, and to the left is a two-storey four-bay extension. The central doorway has a fanlight, above it is a panelled frieze with an inscription, and all the windows are sashes. The middle floor windows each has a architrave, a pulvinated frieze and a cornice, and the windows in the top floor have coved architraves, bulbous keystones and serpentine sills on curved brackets.[130][131]
The wall at the front of the churchyard is in stone, and is panelled with triangular copings. The lych gate has a stone base, a timber superstructure, and a pitched slate roof. There are two pairs of pairs of squat chamfered stone gate piers.[132]
The building, originally an auction house, it was later extended and used as a factory, and is in yellow sandstone and brick, with slate roofs. It consists of a saleroom block and an extension, linked by a bridge to a stable block. The saleroom block has two storeys and three bays, a cornice over the ground floor, a sill band, and a hipped roof. The ground floor openings have round heads, the left is a doorway. To the right is an extension with a single-storey extension over a basement, with eight bays. The stable block has two storeys and two bays, and in the stable yard is paving with flags and setts, and square stone gate piers.[134]
The building is built in sandstone with slate roofs, and was extended in 1896 and 1914. The first two phases are in Italian Renaissance style with three storeys and 16 bays, and the 1914 phase is in Baroque style with two storeys and four bays. In the ground floor are shop fronts, and the upper floors contain windows of various types. At the southeastern end is a clock tower with a domed top, a lantern and a finial, and at the northwestern end is a smaller tower.[62][135]
The former school is in stone with a slate roof, and in Gothic Revival style. There is a front of 13 bays, four of the bays gabled, and the right two bays form gabled cross-wings. The third bay has an octagonal tower containing a cartouche, and with louvred bell openings and an octagonal spire. This bay and the cross-wings contain entrances with red granite colonnettes, a moulded arch with a decorated tympanum, and an inscribed tablet. Enclosing the grounds is a dwarf wall with cast iron railings and three pairs of square gabled gate piers with conical caps.[2][136]
A warehouse and offices, the fronts in stone and the side walls in brick, with mouldedcornices between the floors, and a slate roof with copedgables. The Bond Street front has four storeys and a basement, and four bays. The basement and ground floor are rusticated and contain a round-headed doorway. The windows are sashes with keystones, in the basement and first floor with segmental heads, in the ground and second floors with round heads, and in the top floor with flat heads. The Croft Street Front has four storeys and five bays, quoins, and a rusticated ground floor containing a segmental-arched cart entry and a round-headed doorway. The arrangement of windows is similar to the Bond Street front.[137]
A warehouse, later used for other purposes, it is in stone on a plinth, with a mouldedeaves band, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, three bays on the front, and seven bays along the left return. In the centre of the front is a segmental-headed doorway with a fanlight, flanked by segmental-headed basement doorways. The windows are sashes, in the ground floor they have round heads and keystones, and in the other floors segmental heads. The windows on the front and the first bay of the return have bracketed sills, the left bay in the return contains a taking-in door in each storey, and most of the windows in the top floor are blocked.[62][138]
A warehouse, later used for other purposes, it is in stone on a plinth, with sill bands, a bracketed eaves band, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and a front of five bays, The outer bays each contains a round-headed doorway with a moulded surround, a fanlight, and a bracketed keystone. Between them is a triple arched window containing round-arched sashes with a moulded impost, and moulded arches with roundels. In the middle floor are round headed windows, and the windows in the top floor have flat heads.[139]
A warehouse and office on a corner site, it is in stone with a slate roof, and is in Italianate style. There are four storeys and a basement, six bays on Wellington Road, five bays to the left on the curved corner, nine bays on Branch Road, and six bays on Croft Road. Between the floors are cornices, the windows, apart from those in the curved corner, are round-headed in the lower two floors, segmental-headed in the second floor, and flat-headed in the top floor, and on the roof are ball finials. The doorway in the centre of the corner has a round head, a moulded surround, a fanlight, and a keystone. Above is it a Venetian window with a pediment over the middle light, the flanking windows have laurel wreaths carved above them, and at the top is an inscribed segmental pediment.[140]
Originally Dewsbury Infirmary, the building is in stone with hippedslate roofs, and is in Gothic Revival style. The main block has a T-shaped plan and there is a long wing to the right ending in square towers. The front has two storeys and an attic, and five bays, the outer bays gabled, and the central bay a clock tower containing an entrance flanked by buttresses and with a moulded cambered head. Above it is a cantedoriel window, on the roof of which is a niche containing a statue. Over this are three crocketed gables, a four-light window, and a decorative corbel table. On the top is a pavilion roof with a clock face, a gabled dormer, and pinnacles. The left return has five bays, a gabled entrance and a glass canopy.[2][141]
The church, which is in Decorated style, is built in stone with a Westmorlandslate roof, and has two storeys. On the front are four bays, the middle two bays projecting under a gable, and flanked by buttresses rising to turrets. In the centre is an elaborate gabled portal with an arched entrance, and flanked by three grey granite colonnettes. In the tympanum of the arch is a carving of the Resurrection. Along the sides of the church are six gabled bays divided by buttresses, and in front of the church are steps flanked by walls and elaborate piers.[142][143]
The town hall, which incorporates magistrates' courts, is in stone, the ground floor vermiculated, the middle floor rusticated, and it has slate roofs with a balustradedparapet. There are three storeys and attics, and a symmetrical front of seven bays, the outer bays curved. The middle bay projects, and steps lead up to an entrance in the middle floor that has a portico with paired Ionic columns, and a full dentilledentablature with a balcony above. The upper floor is similar and has a triangular pediment, the tympanum containing coat of arms. Above this rises a two-stage clock tower, the lower stage with an arched opening flanked by paired Composite columns, and with a pediment and urns at the corners. The top stage contains the clock and above it is a dome and a cupola. On the corners of the building are double pavilion roofs with segmental dormers and surmounted by iron crests. The windows in the ground floor have square heads and in the upper floors they are round-headed.[80][144]
The library is in stone on a chamferedplinth, with pilasters, gables containing crests and with finials, and a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal lead-clad cupola. There are two storeys and an asymmetrical front of six bays. The left two bays have gables, and contain flat-headed windows in the ground floor and round-headed windows above. To the right is a bay containing the entrance with a moulded surround, an open segmental pediment containing an inscribed panel, and iron gates over which is a three-light fanlight. Further to the right are three bays, the outer ones with shaped gables, each containing a large round-arched window in the ground floor and small windows above, and to the right of the building is a small round turret.[80][145]
A row of shops forming the northern entrance to The Arcade, they are in stone with a stone slate roof, and are in Renaissance style. There are three storeys and attics, and three bays, the outer bays with pedimented shaped gables and finials. In the centre is the round-arched entrance with an inscribed tablet above, and over that a cross window. Flanking the entrance are modern shop fronts, above them, in the middle floor are cantedtransomedoriel windows, the top floor contains transomed windows, and in the attics are cross windows.[2][146]
A row of shops forming the southern entrance to The Arcade, they are in stone with a stone slate roof, and are in Renaissance style. There are three storeys and attics, and three bays, the outer bays with pedimented shaped gables and finials. In the centre is the round-arched entrance with an inscribed tablet above, and over that a cross window. Flanking the entrance are modern shop fronts, above them, in the middle floor are cantedtransomedoriel windows, the top floor contains transomed windows, and in the attics are cross windows.[2][147]
A shopping arcade with shops on each side, it has a glazed roof with decorative cast iron frames, and there are two storeys. In the ground floor are shop fronts, some contemporary and others modern, and in the upper floor cantedoriel windows alternate with sash windows.[2][148]
The memorial in Crow Nest Park commemorates those lost in the South African War. It consists of a bronze statue of a life-size soldier holding a rifle. The statue stands on a square stepped base of red granite, and on the sides are bronze plaques with the names of those lost.[149]
The public house, curving round a corner site, is in Arts and Crafts style, and built in stone with a tile roof. There are two storeys, a front of three bays, and a further bay canted to the right. Above the central doorway is a cartouche, in the ground floor are square bay windows, and the outer upper floor windows that rise to break through the eaves as hippeddormers. On the corner, the upper floor overhangs, with the corbel carved as a grotesque.[150]
The memorial to the two World Wars is in Crow Nest Park. It consists of a circular stone two-stage tower with eight giant square columns carrying a deep frieze and a blocking course inscribed with the names of battles in the First World War. Inside the upper stage is a tripod with a central column on round, stepped podium. The tower stands on a stepped base, and between the columns in the lower stage are bronze plaques inscribed with the names of those lost in the First World War. On the base are plaques with the names of those lost in the Second World War.[2][151]
The telephone kiosk is of the K6 type, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[152]
The telephone kiosk is of the K6 type, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[153]
The telephone kiosks are of the K6 type, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, they have three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[154]
^The list contains the listed buildings in the wards of Dewsbury East, Dewsbury South and Dewsbury West, plus three buildings in Batley East Ward that are nearer to the town of Dewsbury than to Batley.
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