126, Pontefract Road

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings

and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special

architectural or historic interest.

House. Mid C18, with later addition to rear. Coursed squared sandstone, slate

roof. Single depth 3-unit plan. Three storeys over cellars, 3 bays, in Classical

style; sill bands at ground and 1st floors; symmetrical with strikingly elaborate

centre (for so small a house): 2 semi circular steps to a doorway with panelled

double doors, a Gibbs surround incorporated in a moulded architrave with

scrolled jambs and dentilled pediment, and, superimposed above this, a

Venetian and a Diocletian window, both with keystones and glazing bars; the

outer bays now have top-hung casements with glazing bars (imitating sashes),

all with raised plain surrounds, and the topmost windows square. A 3-pane

cellar window to the right of the doorway. (Later addition to rear is not of

special interest). Interior: central stone staircase between 2 principal rooms,

both of which have large spine beams, that on the left stop-chamfered and

carrying joists with similar decoration; in the right-hand room, a rectangular

stone fireplace and remains of a bread oven.